1 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
3 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
4 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
5 TLS errors better in other situations too.
6 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
7 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
8 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
9 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
10 and don't log when you are.
11 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
12 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
14 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
15 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
16 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
17 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
18 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
21 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
22 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
23 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
24 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
25 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
26 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
27 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
28 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
29 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
30 nickname+key are allowed.
31 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
32 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
33 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
34 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
35 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
36 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
37 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
38 have quite wrong clocks).
39 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
40 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
41 - Efficiency improvements:
42 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
43 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
44 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
45 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
46 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
47 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
48 lowercase and be done with it.
49 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
50 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
51 to abandon partially built circuits.
52 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
53 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
55 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
57 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
58 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
59 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
60 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
62 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
63 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
65 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
66 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
67 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
68 obeying the exit policy internally.
69 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
70 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
72 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
73 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
74 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
75 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
77 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
78 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
79 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
80 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
81 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
83 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
84 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
85 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
86 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
87 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
88 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
89 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
90 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
91 descriptors we just dropped.
92 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
93 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
94 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
95 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
96 artificially capped at 500kB.
99 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
100 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
101 - Fixes on reachability detection:
102 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
103 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
104 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
105 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
106 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
107 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
108 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
109 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
110 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
111 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
112 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
113 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
114 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
115 server not already connected to them.
116 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
117 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
118 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
120 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
122 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
123 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
124 are in a different state than they actually are.
125 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
126 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
127 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
129 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
130 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
131 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
133 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
134 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
135 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
136 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
137 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
138 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
139 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
141 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
142 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
143 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
144 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
147 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
149 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
150 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
151 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
152 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
153 hidden services better.
154 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
156 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
157 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
158 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
159 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
160 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
161 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
162 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
163 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
164 patch by Matt Edman).
165 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
166 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
167 required exit node for certain sites.
168 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
169 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
170 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
171 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
172 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
173 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
174 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
175 rather than just "success" or "failure".
176 - A more sane version numbering system. See
177 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
178 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
179 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
181 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
182 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
183 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
184 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
185 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
186 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
187 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
189 o Robustness/stability fixes:
190 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
191 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
192 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
194 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
195 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
196 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
198 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
199 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
200 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
202 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
203 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
204 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
205 that will want high uptime circuits.
206 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
207 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
208 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
209 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
210 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
211 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
212 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
213 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
214 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
215 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
216 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
217 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
218 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
219 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
220 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
221 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
222 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
223 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
224 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
225 when we try to launch one.
226 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
227 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
228 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
229 "ShutdownWaitLength".
230 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
231 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
232 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
233 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
234 and to take errno into account where possible.
237 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
238 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
239 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
240 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
241 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
242 file more reasonable.
243 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
244 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
245 addresses -- it won't.
246 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
247 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
248 for google.com" problem.
249 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
250 so it's not just "unknown platform".
251 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
252 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
253 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
254 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
256 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
257 they could use instead.
258 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
259 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
260 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
261 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
262 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
263 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
264 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
265 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
266 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
268 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
272 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
273 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
275 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
276 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
277 private-IP addresses.
278 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
279 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
281 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
282 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
283 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
284 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
285 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
286 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
287 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
289 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
290 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
291 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
292 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
293 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
294 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
295 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
296 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
298 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
300 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
301 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
302 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
303 whether the server is hibernating.
306 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
307 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
308 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
309 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
310 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
313 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
314 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
315 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
316 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
317 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
318 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
319 busy for more than 100 seconds.
322 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
323 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
324 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
325 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
326 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
327 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
328 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
329 creating actual system users.
330 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
331 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
335 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
336 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
337 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
338 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
339 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
340 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
341 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
342 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
343 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
344 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
345 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
346 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
347 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
348 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
349 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
351 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
352 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
353 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
354 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
355 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
356 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
357 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
358 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
359 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
360 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
361 existing torrc files.
362 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
365 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
366 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
367 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
368 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
369 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
370 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
371 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
372 the win32 SYSTEM account.
373 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
374 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
375 file descriptors available.
376 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
377 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
378 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
381 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
383 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
384 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
386 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
387 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
388 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
389 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
390 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
392 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
393 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
394 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
395 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
396 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
397 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
398 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
399 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
400 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
401 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
403 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
406 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
408 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
409 need as much processor time.
410 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
411 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
412 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
413 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
414 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
415 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
416 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
417 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
418 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
419 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
420 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
421 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
423 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
424 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
425 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
426 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
427 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
428 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
429 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
432 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
433 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
434 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
436 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
437 style address, then we'd crash.
438 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
439 a dirserver is broken.
440 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
442 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
443 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
444 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
446 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
447 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
448 name out of the warning/assert messages.
449 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
450 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
451 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
453 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
454 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
455 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
457 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
459 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
460 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
461 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
462 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
463 values at once couldn't work.
464 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
465 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
466 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
467 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
468 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
469 they can handle any number of routers.
470 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
471 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
472 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
473 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
474 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
475 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
476 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
477 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
478 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
481 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
483 - Make hibernation actually work.
484 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
485 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
486 don't use the stream status code.
489 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
490 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
491 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
492 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
493 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
494 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
495 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
496 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
497 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
498 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
499 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
500 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
503 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
504 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
505 win32 socket errors better.
506 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
507 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
508 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
509 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
511 - Make unit tests work on win32.
513 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
514 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
515 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
516 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
517 right after sending the begin cell.
518 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
519 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
520 exit nodes too. Oops.
521 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
522 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
523 the user would get no response.
524 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
525 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
526 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
528 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
529 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
530 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
531 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
532 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
534 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
535 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
536 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
537 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
538 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
539 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
540 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
541 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
542 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
543 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
544 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
546 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
547 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
548 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
549 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
550 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
551 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
552 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
553 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
554 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
555 so we don't see those messages days later.
556 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
557 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
559 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
560 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
561 they ran out of file descriptors.
562 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
563 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
564 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
565 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
567 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
568 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
569 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
570 the ones we find in directories.)
571 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
572 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
573 if you don't want it open.
574 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
575 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
576 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
577 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
578 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
579 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
581 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
582 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
584 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
586 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
587 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
589 o Features (circuits and streams):
590 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
591 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
592 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
593 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
594 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
595 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
596 the user knows which one it's talking about.
597 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
598 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
599 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
600 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
601 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
603 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
605 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
606 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
607 to fill the last cell completely.
608 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
609 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
611 o Features (bandwidth):
612 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
613 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
614 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
615 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
616 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
617 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
618 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
619 your billing cycle starts on.
620 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
621 hibernation properties by
622 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
623 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
624 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
625 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
626 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
628 o Features (directories):
629 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
630 nickname to its identity key.
631 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
632 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
633 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
634 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
635 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
637 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
638 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
640 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
641 will be able to get a directory.
643 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
644 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
645 be routed through this host.
646 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
647 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
648 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
649 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
650 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
651 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
653 o Features (packages and install):
654 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
655 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
656 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
657 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
658 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
659 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
660 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
661 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
662 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
663 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
666 o Features (ui controller):
667 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
668 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
669 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
670 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
671 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
672 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
673 with the control port.
674 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
675 use in authenticating to the control interface.
676 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
677 configuration to torrc.
678 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
679 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
680 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
682 o Features (config and command-line):
683 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
684 not on the command line.
685 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
687 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
688 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
689 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
690 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
691 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
692 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
693 - New log format in config:
694 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
695 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
696 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
697 from their dirserver.
698 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
700 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
701 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
702 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
703 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
704 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
705 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
706 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
707 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
708 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
709 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
710 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
711 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
712 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
713 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
714 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
715 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
716 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
717 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
718 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
719 than once per minute.
722 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
724 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
725 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
726 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
727 log more informatively.
728 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
729 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
730 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
731 from each other, to hinder linkability.
732 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
733 them act more like real nodes.
734 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
735 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
736 1024) file descriptors.
737 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
740 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
742 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
743 clients/servers with an open dirport.
744 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
745 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
746 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
747 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
748 intermittent connections.
749 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
750 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
752 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
753 in reporting stats locally.
754 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
755 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
756 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
759 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
761 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
762 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
763 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
764 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
765 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
766 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
767 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
768 list to decide who's running.
769 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
770 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
771 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
772 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
773 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
774 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
775 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
776 for pointing out this bug.)
777 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
779 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
780 don't put it into the client dns cache.
781 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
782 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
783 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
786 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
787 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
788 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
789 hadn't heard of before.
792 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
793 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
794 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
795 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
796 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
797 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
798 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
799 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
800 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
801 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
802 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
803 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
804 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
805 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
807 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
808 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
809 directory they've pulled down.
810 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
811 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
812 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
813 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
814 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
815 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
816 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
818 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
820 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
821 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
822 clients don't use this yet.)
823 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
824 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
825 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
826 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
827 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
828 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
829 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
830 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
831 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
832 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
833 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
834 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
835 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
836 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
837 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
838 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
839 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
840 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
841 - File and name management:
842 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
843 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
845 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
846 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
847 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
848 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
849 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
850 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
851 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
853 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
854 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
855 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
857 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
858 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
859 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
860 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
861 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
862 - New docs in the tarball:
864 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
865 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
866 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
867 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
868 know you might want to get it verified.
869 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
870 kazaa, gnutella ports.
871 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
872 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
873 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
874 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
875 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
876 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
877 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
879 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
881 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
882 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
884 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
885 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
886 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
889 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
890 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
891 ask them to resolve the host "".
894 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
895 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
896 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
899 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
900 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
901 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
904 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
905 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
906 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
907 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
909 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
910 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
911 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
913 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
914 hidden service per 15-minute period.
915 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
916 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
917 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
918 o Fixes for security bugs:
919 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
920 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
923 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
924 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
925 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
926 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
927 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
928 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
929 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
930 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
931 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
932 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
934 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
935 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
936 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
937 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
938 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
939 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
941 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
944 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
945 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
946 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
947 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
948 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
949 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
950 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
951 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
952 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
953 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
954 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
955 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
956 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
957 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
960 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
961 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
962 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
963 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
966 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
967 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
968 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
969 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
970 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
971 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
972 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
976 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
978 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
979 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
980 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
981 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
982 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
983 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
984 if you decrypted them correctly.
985 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
986 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
987 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
988 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
989 in-memory directories too.
990 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
991 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
992 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
993 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
995 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
996 - Better debugging for tls errors
997 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
998 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
1000 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
1001 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
1002 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
1003 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
1004 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
1005 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
1006 it tells you about the first error.
1007 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
1008 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
1009 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
1010 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
1011 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
1012 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
1013 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
1014 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
1015 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
1016 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
1018 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
1019 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
1022 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
1023 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
1025 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
1026 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
1027 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
1028 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
1029 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
1030 expect it to have a nickname.
1031 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
1032 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
1033 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
1034 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
1035 the dns farm to do it.
1036 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
1037 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
1039 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
1040 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
1041 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
1042 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
1043 but that aren't warnings
1046 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
1047 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
1051 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
1052 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
1053 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
1054 - include missing header fcntl.h
1055 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
1056 - deal with hardware word alignment
1057 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
1058 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
1059 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
1060 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
1061 by kill -USR1 currently.
1062 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
1063 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
1064 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
1067 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
1068 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
1069 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
1072 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
1074 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
1075 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
1076 - And fix a few endian issues.
1079 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
1081 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
1082 try that circuit again: try a new one.
1083 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
1084 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
1085 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
1086 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
1087 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
1088 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
1090 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
1091 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
1092 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
1094 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
1096 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
1097 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
1098 side isn't reading right then.
1099 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
1101 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
1102 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
1103 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
1106 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
1108 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
1109 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
1112 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
1116 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
1118 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
1119 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
1120 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
1121 connection is finished.
1122 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
1123 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
1124 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
1125 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
1126 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
1127 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
1128 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
1129 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
1130 rather than warn and continue.
1131 - Make --version work
1132 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
1135 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
1137 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
1139 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
1140 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
1142 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
1143 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
1144 so you can collect coredumps there.
1146 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
1147 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
1148 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
1149 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
1150 dns cache actually gets populated.
1151 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
1152 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
1153 end cell down it first.
1154 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
1155 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
1158 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
1160 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
1161 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
1163 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
1164 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
1165 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
1166 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
1167 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
1168 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
1170 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
1172 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
1173 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
1174 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
1175 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
1176 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
1177 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
1179 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
1180 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
1183 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
1185 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
1186 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
1187 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
1188 tor. It even has a man page.
1189 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
1190 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
1191 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
1192 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
1194 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
1196 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
1199 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
1201 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
1203 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
1204 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
1205 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
1206 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
1207 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
1208 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
1209 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
1210 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
1211 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
1212 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
1213 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
1215 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
1216 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
1219 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
1221 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
1222 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
1225 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
1227 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
1228 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
1229 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
1230 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
1231 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
1232 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
1233 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
1234 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
1235 logfile so you know it's working.
1236 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
1237 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
1240 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
1242 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
1243 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
1244 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
1247 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
1249 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
1250 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
1251 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
1254 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
1255 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
1256 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
1258 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
1259 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
1261 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
1262 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
1263 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
1265 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
1266 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
1270 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
1272 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
1273 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
1274 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
1277 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
1278 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
1279 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
1280 - Add port ranges to exit policies
1281 - Add a conservative default exit policy
1282 - Warn if you're running tor as root
1283 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
1284 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
1285 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
1286 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
1288 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
1291 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
1292 o Robustness and bugfixes:
1293 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
1294 really screw things up.
1295 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
1297 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
1298 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
1300 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
1301 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
1302 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
1303 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
1304 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
1305 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
1308 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
1311 - Change default loglevel to warn.
1312 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
1313 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
1315 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
1318 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
1319 o Robustness and bugfixes:
1320 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
1321 - to get ownership/permissions right
1322 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
1323 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
1324 pull down a directory again
1325 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
1326 causing server crashes
1327 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
1328 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
1329 - exit if bind() fails
1330 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
1331 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
1332 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
1333 - fix minor bias in PRNG
1334 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
1337 - Wrote the design document (woo)
1339 o Circuit building and exit policies:
1340 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
1342 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
1343 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
1344 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
1345 exists, rather than failing
1346 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
1347 which AP connections are standing by
1348 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
1349 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
1350 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
1352 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
1353 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
1356 - APPort is now called SocksPort
1357 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
1359 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
1360 hardcoded (for dirservers)
1361 - Reloads config on HUP
1362 - Usage info on -h or --help
1363 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
1365 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
1366 o General stability:
1367 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
1368 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
1369 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
1370 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
1371 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
1372 to take down the network when I approve a new router
1373 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
1376 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
1377 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
1379 o Autoconf improvements:
1380 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
1381 - Make install now works
1382 - create var/lib/tor on make install
1383 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
1384 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
1386 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
1387 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
1388 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
1389 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup