1 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
2 o New features (major):
3 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
4 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
5 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
6 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
7 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
8 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
9 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
10 we're using a default DirPort.
11 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
13 o New features (minor):
14 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
15 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
16 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
17 mirrors still cache and serve it).
18 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
19 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
20 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
21 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
22 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
23 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
24 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
25 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
26 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
28 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
29 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
30 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
31 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
32 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
34 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
35 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
36 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
37 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
38 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
39 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
40 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
41 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
43 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
44 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
45 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
46 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
47 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
48 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
49 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
50 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
51 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
52 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
54 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
55 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
56 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
57 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
58 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
61 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
62 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
64 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
65 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
67 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
68 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
69 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
70 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
71 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
72 don't warn twice about the same name.
73 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
74 if we've not heard of the server.
75 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
76 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
79 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
80 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
81 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
82 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
83 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
85 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
86 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
87 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
88 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
89 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
90 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
94 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
95 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
96 nickname) is reachable by you.
97 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
101 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
102 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
103 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
104 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
105 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
106 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
107 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
108 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
110 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
111 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
112 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
113 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
115 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
116 it was self-testing that told us so.
119 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
120 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
121 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
122 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
123 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
124 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
125 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
126 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
127 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
128 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
129 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
130 exit policy and stopped using him for any exits.
131 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
134 o New controller features/fixes:
135 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
136 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
137 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
138 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
139 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
140 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
141 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
142 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
143 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
145 o Start on the new directory design:
146 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
147 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
149 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
150 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
151 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
152 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
154 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
155 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
156 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
157 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
158 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
159 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
160 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
161 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
164 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
165 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
166 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
167 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
168 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
169 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
170 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
171 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
172 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
173 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
175 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
176 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
177 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
178 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
179 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
180 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
181 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
182 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
183 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
185 o Config option changes:
186 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
187 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
188 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
189 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
190 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
191 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
194 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
195 people have started using them for spam too.
196 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
197 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
198 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
199 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
200 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
201 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
202 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
203 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
204 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
205 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
206 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
207 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
208 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
209 services faster on the service end.
210 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
211 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
212 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
213 it a fair shake next time we try.
214 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
215 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
216 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
217 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
218 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
219 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
220 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
221 able to discover them.
222 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
223 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
224 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
225 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
226 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
227 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
228 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
229 testing for reachability.
230 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
231 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
233 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
235 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
236 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
239 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
240 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
242 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
243 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
244 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
245 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
248 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
249 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
252 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
253 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
254 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
255 options, getinfo keys.
258 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-25
259 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
260 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
262 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
264 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
265 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
266 circuit events and we go offline.
267 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
268 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
269 you don't have enough intro points already.
271 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
272 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
273 many bytes we've used in this time period.
274 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
275 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
276 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
277 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
278 enabled by default yet.
280 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
281 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
282 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
283 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
284 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
287 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-14
288 o New directory servers:
289 - tor26 has changed IP address.
291 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
292 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from 0.1.0.11.
293 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
294 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
295 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
296 ports that have changed.
297 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
299 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
300 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
301 Windows-style errno back.
302 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
303 want to make it an NT service.
304 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
305 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
306 name, give the full name in our response.
307 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
308 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
309 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
310 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
313 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
314 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
318 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
319 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
320 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
321 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
322 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
325 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
327 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
328 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
329 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
330 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
331 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
332 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
334 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
335 temporarily unreachable.
336 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
340 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
341 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
342 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
344 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
348 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
349 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
350 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
351 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
352 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
353 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
354 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
355 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
356 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
357 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
358 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
359 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
360 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
361 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
362 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
365 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
366 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
367 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes.
368 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
369 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
372 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
373 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
374 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
375 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
376 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
377 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
378 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
380 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
381 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
385 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
386 o New directory servers:
387 - tor26 has changed IP address.
389 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
390 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
391 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
393 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
394 claims its dirport is 0.
395 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
396 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
400 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
401 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
402 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
403 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
404 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
405 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
406 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
407 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
410 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
412 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
413 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
414 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
415 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
416 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
417 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
418 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
419 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
420 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
422 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
423 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
425 o Assert / crash bugs:
426 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
427 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
428 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process.
429 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
430 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
431 TLS errors better in other situations too.
432 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
433 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
436 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
437 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
438 duplicate ram over time.
439 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
440 reentry and threadsafeness.
441 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
442 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
443 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
445 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
446 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
447 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
448 point at your Tor server.
449 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
451 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
452 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
455 o Protocol correctness:
456 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
457 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
458 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
459 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
460 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
461 to abandon partially built circuits.
462 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
463 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
464 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
465 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
466 descriptors we just dropped.
467 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
468 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
469 and to take errno into account where possible.
470 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
471 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
472 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
473 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
475 o Robustness improvements:
476 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
477 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
478 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
480 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
481 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
482 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
483 that will want high uptime circuits.
484 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
485 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
486 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
487 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
488 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
489 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
490 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
491 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
492 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
493 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
494 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
495 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
496 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
497 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
498 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
499 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
500 for google.com" problem.
501 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
502 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
503 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
504 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
505 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
508 o Reachability testing.
509 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
510 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
511 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
512 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
513 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
514 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
515 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
516 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
517 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
518 already connected to them.
519 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
523 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
524 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
525 nickname+key are allowed.
526 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
527 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
528 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
529 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
530 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
531 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
532 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
533 have quite wrong clocks).
534 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
535 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
536 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
537 their descriptors are being rejected.
539 o Efficiency improvements:
540 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
541 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
542 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
543 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
544 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
545 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
546 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
547 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
548 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
549 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
551 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
552 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
553 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
554 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
555 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
556 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
557 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
558 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
559 of CPU time plus memory.
560 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
561 directory every time you regenerate it.
562 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
563 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
564 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
565 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
566 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
567 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
568 lowercase when you first see them.
571 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
572 hidden services better.
573 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
574 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
575 when we try to launch one.
576 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
577 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
578 attempts to build a circuit.
579 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
580 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
581 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
585 - More Tor controller support. See
586 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
587 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
588 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
589 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
590 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
591 to make it easier to write controllers.
592 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
593 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
594 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
595 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
598 o New config options/defaults:
599 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
600 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
601 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
602 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
603 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
605 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
607 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
608 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
609 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
610 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
611 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
613 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
614 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
615 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
616 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
617 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
618 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
619 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
620 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
621 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
622 required exit node for certain sites.
623 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
624 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
625 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
626 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
627 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
628 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
629 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
630 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
631 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
633 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
634 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
635 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
636 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
637 private-IP addresses.
638 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
639 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
640 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
641 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
642 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
643 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
644 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
645 is valid without actually launching Tor.
647 o Logging improvements:
648 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
649 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
650 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
651 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
653 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
654 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
655 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
656 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
657 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
658 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
659 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
660 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
661 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
663 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
665 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
666 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
667 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
668 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
669 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
670 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
672 o New contrib scripts:
673 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
674 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
676 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
677 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
678 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
679 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
680 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
681 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
683 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
684 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
685 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
686 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
690 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
691 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
692 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
693 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
694 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
695 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
696 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
698 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
699 something more reasonable when first installing.
700 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
701 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
702 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
703 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
705 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
706 artificially capped at 500kB.
707 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
709 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
710 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
711 they could use instead.
712 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
713 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
714 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
715 the user asks you to.
718 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
719 rather than just rejecting it.
720 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
721 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
722 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
723 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
724 rather than just "success" or "failure".
725 - A more sane version numbering system. See
726 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
727 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
728 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
729 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
730 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
731 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
733 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
734 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
735 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
736 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
738 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
739 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
741 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
742 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
743 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
744 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
746 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
747 whether the server is hibernating.
750 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
751 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
752 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
753 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
754 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process.
757 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
758 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
759 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
760 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
761 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
764 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
765 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
766 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
767 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
768 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
769 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
770 busy for more than 100 seconds.
773 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
774 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
775 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
776 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
777 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
778 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
779 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
780 creating actual system users.
781 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
782 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
786 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
787 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
788 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
789 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
790 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
791 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
792 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
793 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
794 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
795 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
796 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
797 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
798 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
799 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
800 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
802 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
803 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
804 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
805 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
806 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
807 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
808 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
809 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
810 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
811 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
812 existing torrc files.
813 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
816 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
817 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
818 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
819 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
820 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
821 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
822 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
823 the win32 SYSTEM account.
824 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
825 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
826 file descriptors available.
827 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
828 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
829 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
832 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
834 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
835 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
837 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
838 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
839 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
840 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
841 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
843 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
844 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
845 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
846 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
847 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
848 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
849 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
850 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
851 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
852 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
854 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
857 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
859 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
860 need as much processor time.
861 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
862 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
863 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
864 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
865 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
866 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
867 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
868 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
869 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
870 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
871 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
872 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
874 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
875 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
876 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
877 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
878 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
879 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
880 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
883 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
884 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
885 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
887 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
888 style address, then we'd crash.
889 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
890 a dirserver is broken.
891 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
893 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
894 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
895 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
897 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
898 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
899 name out of the warning/assert messages.
900 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
901 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
902 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
904 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
905 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
906 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
908 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
910 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
911 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
912 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
913 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
914 values at once couldn't work.
915 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
916 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
917 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
918 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
919 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
920 they can handle any number of routers.
921 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
922 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
923 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
924 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
925 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
926 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
927 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
928 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
929 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
932 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
934 - Make hibernation actually work.
935 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
936 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
937 don't use the stream status code.
940 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
941 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
942 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
943 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
944 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
945 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
946 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
947 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
948 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
949 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
950 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
951 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
954 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
955 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
956 win32 socket errors better.
957 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
958 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
959 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
960 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
962 - Make unit tests work on win32.
964 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
965 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
966 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
967 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
968 right after sending the begin cell.
969 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
970 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
971 exit nodes too. Oops.
972 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
973 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
974 the user would get no response.
975 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
976 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
977 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
979 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
980 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
981 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
982 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
983 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
985 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
986 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
987 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
988 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
989 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
990 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
991 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
992 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
993 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
994 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
995 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
997 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
998 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
999 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
1000 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
1001 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
1002 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
1003 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
1004 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
1005 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
1006 so we don't see those messages days later.
1007 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
1008 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
1010 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
1011 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
1012 they ran out of file descriptors.
1013 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
1014 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
1015 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
1016 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
1018 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
1019 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
1020 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
1021 the ones we find in directories.)
1022 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
1023 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
1024 if you don't want it open.
1025 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
1026 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
1027 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
1028 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
1029 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
1030 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
1032 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
1033 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
1035 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
1037 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
1038 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
1040 o Features (circuits and streams):
1041 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
1042 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
1043 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
1044 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
1045 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
1046 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
1047 the user knows which one it's talking about.
1048 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
1049 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
1050 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
1051 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
1052 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
1054 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
1056 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
1057 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
1058 to fill the last cell completely.
1059 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
1060 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
1062 o Features (bandwidth):
1063 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
1064 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
1065 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
1066 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
1067 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
1068 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
1069 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
1070 your billing cycle starts on.
1071 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
1072 hibernation properties by
1073 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
1074 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
1075 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
1076 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
1077 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
1079 o Features (directories):
1080 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
1081 nickname to its identity key.
1082 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
1083 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
1084 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
1085 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
1086 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
1088 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
1089 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
1091 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
1092 will be able to get a directory.
1093 - Http proxy support
1094 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
1095 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
1096 be routed through this host.
1097 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
1098 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
1099 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
1100 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
1101 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
1102 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
1104 o Features (packages and install):
1105 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
1106 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
1107 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
1108 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
1109 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
1110 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
1111 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
1112 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
1113 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
1114 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
1117 o Features (ui controller):
1118 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
1119 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
1120 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
1121 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
1122 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
1123 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
1124 with the control port.
1125 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
1126 use in authenticating to the control interface.
1127 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
1128 configuration to torrc.
1129 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
1130 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
1131 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
1133 o Features (config and command-line):
1134 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
1135 not on the command line.
1136 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
1138 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
1139 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
1140 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
1141 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
1142 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
1143 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
1144 - New log format in config:
1145 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
1146 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
1147 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
1148 from their dirserver.
1149 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
1151 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
1152 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
1153 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
1154 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
1155 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
1156 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
1157 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
1158 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
1159 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
1160 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
1161 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
1162 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
1163 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
1164 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
1165 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
1166 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
1167 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
1168 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
1169 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
1170 than once per minute.
1173 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
1174 get back to normal.)
1175 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
1176 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
1177 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
1178 log more informatively.
1179 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
1180 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
1181 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
1182 from each other, to hinder linkability.
1183 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
1184 them act more like real nodes.
1185 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
1186 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
1187 1024) file descriptors.
1188 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
1191 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
1193 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
1194 clients/servers with an open dirport.
1195 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
1196 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
1197 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
1198 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
1199 intermittent connections.
1200 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
1201 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
1203 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
1204 in reporting stats locally.
1205 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
1206 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
1207 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
1210 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
1212 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
1213 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
1214 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
1215 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
1216 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
1217 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
1218 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
1219 list to decide who's running.
1220 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
1221 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
1222 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
1223 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
1224 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
1225 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
1226 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
1227 for pointing out this bug.)
1228 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
1230 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
1231 don't put it into the client dns cache.
1232 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
1233 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
1234 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
1237 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
1238 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
1239 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
1240 hadn't heard of before.
1243 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
1244 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
1245 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
1246 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
1247 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
1248 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
1249 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
1250 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
1251 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
1252 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
1253 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
1254 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
1255 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
1256 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
1257 - Directory caching.
1258 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
1259 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
1260 directory they've pulled down.
1261 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
1262 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
1263 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
1264 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
1265 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
1266 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
1267 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
1269 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
1270 This isn't used yet.
1271 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
1272 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
1273 clients don't use this yet.)
1274 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
1275 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
1276 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
1277 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
1278 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
1279 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
1280 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
1281 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
1282 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
1283 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
1284 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
1285 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
1286 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
1287 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
1288 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
1289 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
1290 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
1291 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
1292 - File and name management:
1293 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
1294 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
1296 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
1297 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
1298 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
1299 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
1300 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
1301 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
1302 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
1304 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
1305 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
1306 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
1308 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
1309 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
1310 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
1311 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
1312 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
1313 - New docs in the tarball:
1315 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
1316 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
1317 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
1318 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
1319 know you might want to get it verified.
1320 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
1321 kazaa, gnutella ports.
1322 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
1323 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
1324 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
1325 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
1326 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
1327 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
1328 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
1330 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
1332 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
1333 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
1335 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
1336 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
1337 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
1340 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
1341 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
1342 ask them to resolve the host "".
1345 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
1346 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
1347 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
1350 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
1351 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
1352 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
1355 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
1356 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
1357 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
1358 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
1360 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
1361 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
1362 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
1364 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
1365 hidden service per 15-minute period.
1366 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
1367 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
1368 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
1369 o Fixes for security bugs:
1370 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
1371 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
1372 a trusted dirserver.
1374 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
1375 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
1376 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
1377 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
1378 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
1379 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
1380 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
1381 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
1382 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
1383 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
1385 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
1386 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
1387 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
1388 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
1389 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
1390 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
1392 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
1395 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
1396 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
1397 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
1398 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
1399 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
1400 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
1401 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
1402 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
1403 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
1404 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
1405 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
1406 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
1407 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
1408 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
1411 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
1412 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
1413 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
1414 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1417 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
1418 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
1419 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
1420 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
1421 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
1422 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1423 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
1427 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
1429 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
1430 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
1431 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
1432 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
1433 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
1434 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
1435 if you decrypted them correctly.
1436 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
1437 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
1438 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
1439 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
1440 in-memory directories too.
1441 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
1442 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
1443 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
1444 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
1445 just close the circ.
1446 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
1447 - Better debugging for tls errors
1448 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
1449 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
1451 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
1452 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
1453 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
1454 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
1455 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
1456 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
1457 it tells you about the first error.
1458 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
1459 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
1460 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
1461 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
1462 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
1463 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
1464 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
1465 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
1466 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
1467 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
1469 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
1470 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
1473 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
1474 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
1476 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
1477 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
1478 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
1479 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
1480 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
1481 expect it to have a nickname.
1482 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
1483 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
1484 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
1485 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
1486 the dns farm to do it.
1487 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
1488 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
1490 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
1491 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
1492 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
1493 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
1494 but that aren't warnings
1497 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
1498 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
1502 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
1503 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
1504 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
1505 - include missing header fcntl.h
1506 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
1507 - deal with hardware word alignment
1508 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
1509 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
1510 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
1511 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
1512 by kill -USR1 currently.
1513 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
1514 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
1515 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
1518 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
1519 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
1520 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
1523 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
1525 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
1526 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
1527 - And fix a few endian issues.
1530 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
1532 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
1533 try that circuit again: try a new one.
1534 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
1535 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
1536 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
1537 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
1538 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
1539 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
1541 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
1542 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
1543 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
1545 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
1547 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
1548 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
1549 side isn't reading right then.
1550 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
1552 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
1553 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
1554 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
1557 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
1559 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
1560 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
1563 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
1567 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
1569 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
1570 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
1571 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
1572 connection is finished.
1573 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
1574 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
1575 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
1576 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
1577 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
1578 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
1579 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
1580 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
1581 rather than warn and continue.
1582 - Make --version work
1583 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
1586 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
1588 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
1590 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
1591 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
1593 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
1594 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
1595 so you can collect coredumps there.
1597 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
1598 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
1599 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
1600 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
1601 dns cache actually gets populated.
1602 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
1603 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
1604 end cell down it first.
1605 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
1606 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
1609 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
1611 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
1612 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
1614 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
1615 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
1616 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
1617 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
1618 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
1619 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
1621 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
1623 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
1624 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
1625 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
1626 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
1627 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
1628 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
1630 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
1631 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
1634 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
1636 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
1637 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
1638 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
1639 tor. It even has a man page.
1640 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
1641 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
1642 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
1643 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
1645 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
1647 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
1650 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
1652 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
1654 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
1655 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
1656 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
1657 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
1658 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
1659 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
1660 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
1661 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
1662 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
1663 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
1664 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
1666 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
1667 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
1670 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
1672 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
1673 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
1676 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
1678 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
1679 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
1680 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
1681 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
1682 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
1683 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
1684 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
1685 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
1686 logfile so you know it's working.
1687 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
1688 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
1691 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
1693 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
1694 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
1695 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
1698 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
1700 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
1701 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
1702 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
1705 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
1706 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
1707 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
1709 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
1710 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
1712 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
1713 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
1714 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
1716 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
1717 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
1721 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
1723 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
1724 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
1725 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
1728 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
1729 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
1730 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
1731 - Add port ranges to exit policies
1732 - Add a conservative default exit policy
1733 - Warn if you're running tor as root
1734 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
1735 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
1736 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
1737 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
1739 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
1742 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
1743 o Robustness and bugfixes:
1744 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
1745 really screw things up.
1746 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
1748 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
1749 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
1751 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
1752 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
1753 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
1754 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
1755 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
1756 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
1759 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
1762 - Change default loglevel to warn.
1763 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
1764 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
1766 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
1769 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
1770 o Robustness and bugfixes:
1771 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
1772 - to get ownership/permissions right
1773 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
1774 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
1775 pull down a directory again
1776 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
1777 causing server crashes
1778 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
1779 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
1780 - exit if bind() fails
1781 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
1782 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
1783 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
1784 - fix minor bias in PRNG
1785 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
1788 - Wrote the design document (woo)
1790 o Circuit building and exit policies:
1791 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
1793 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
1794 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
1795 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
1796 exists, rather than failing
1797 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
1798 which AP connections are standing by
1799 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
1800 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
1801 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
1803 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
1804 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
1807 - APPort is now called SocksPort
1808 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
1810 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
1811 hardcoded (for dirservers)
1812 - Reloads config on HUP
1813 - Usage info on -h or --help
1814 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
1816 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
1817 o General stability:
1818 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
1819 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
1820 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
1821 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
1822 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
1823 to take down the network when I approve a new router
1824 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
1827 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
1828 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
1830 o Autoconf improvements:
1831 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
1832 - Make install now works
1833 - create var/lib/tor on make install
1834 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
1835 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
1837 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
1838 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
1839 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
1840 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup