1 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
3 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
4 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
5 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
6 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
9 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
10 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
11 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
12 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
13 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
16 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.1.2.x):
17 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
18 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
21 o Minor features (directory servers):
22 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
23 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
25 o Minor features (directory voting):
26 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
29 o Minor features (security):
30 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
31 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
32 encourage people using them to stop.
34 o Minor features (controller):
35 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
36 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
37 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
38 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
39 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
40 cookie authentication file, and config option
41 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
43 o Minor features (unit testing):
44 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
45 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
46 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
47 logging for the unit tests.
49 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
50 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
51 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
52 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
53 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
54 every time we change any piece of our config.
55 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
56 the future. Fixes bug 434.
57 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
59 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
60 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
61 the onion key from getting rotated.
62 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
64 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
65 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
66 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
68 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
69 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
72 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
73 o Major security fixes:
74 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
75 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
77 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
78 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
81 o Minor features (performance):
82 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
83 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
84 performance-intensive.
85 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
86 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
87 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
88 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
89 siightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
90 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
94 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
96 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
97 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
98 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
99 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
100 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
102 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
103 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
104 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
105 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
107 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
108 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
109 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
110 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
111 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
113 o Major features (experimental):
114 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
115 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
116 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
117 handling before it's ready for use.
120 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
121 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
122 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
123 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
124 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
125 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
127 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
128 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
129 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
130 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
131 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
133 o Major bugfixes (directory):
134 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
135 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
137 o Minor features (controller):
138 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
139 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
140 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
142 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
144 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
145 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
147 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
148 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
149 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
150 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
151 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
152 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
153 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
156 o Minor features (misc):
157 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
159 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
160 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
161 the authority identity key.
162 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
164 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
165 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
166 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
169 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
170 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
171 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
172 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
173 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
174 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
175 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
176 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
178 o Performance improvements:
179 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
181 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
182 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
185 o Deprecated and removed features:
186 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
187 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
188 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
189 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
191 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
192 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
193 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
194 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
195 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
196 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
197 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
198 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
199 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
202 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
203 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
204 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
205 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
206 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
208 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
209 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
212 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
213 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
214 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
215 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
216 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
217 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
218 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
219 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
220 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
223 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
224 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
225 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
227 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
228 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
229 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
230 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
231 routerlist while inserting a new router.
232 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
233 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
235 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
236 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
237 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
239 o Major bugfixes (security):
240 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
242 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
243 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
244 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
245 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
246 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
247 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
248 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
249 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
250 guard list unless we need to.
252 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
253 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
254 don't get overused as guards.
256 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
257 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
258 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
259 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
260 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
262 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
263 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
264 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
267 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
268 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
269 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
270 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
271 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
272 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
273 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
274 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
277 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
278 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
279 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
280 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
282 o Minor features (directory):
283 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
284 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
285 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
286 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
288 o Minor build issues:
289 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
290 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
291 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
292 in the tarball, not as "x".
295 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
296 o Major features, server usability:
297 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
298 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
299 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
300 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
302 o Major features, client usability:
303 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
304 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
305 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
306 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
307 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
308 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
309 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
310 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
312 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
313 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
314 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
315 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
316 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
317 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
319 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
320 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
321 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
323 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
324 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
325 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
326 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
327 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
329 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
330 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
331 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
332 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
334 o Major features, other:
335 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
336 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
337 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
338 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
339 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
342 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
343 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
344 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
347 o Minor fixes (resource management):
348 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
349 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
350 our allocated connection limit.
351 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
352 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
353 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
354 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
355 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
357 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
358 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
359 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
361 o Minor features (build):
362 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
363 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
364 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
365 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
367 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
368 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
369 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
370 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
371 Use this version consistently in log messages.
373 o Minor features (logging):
374 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
375 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
376 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
377 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
378 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
381 o Minor features (directory system):
382 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
383 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
384 not to serve V2 directory information.
385 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
386 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
387 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
389 o Minor features (controller):
390 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
391 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
393 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
394 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
395 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
396 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
397 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
398 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
400 o Minor features (hidden services):
401 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
402 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
403 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
404 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
406 o Minor features (other):
408 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
409 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
410 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
411 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
412 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
413 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
414 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
415 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
416 longer a completely silly thing to do.
417 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
418 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
419 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
420 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
423 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
424 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
425 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
426 back an error and close the connection.
427 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
428 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
431 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
432 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
433 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
434 makes the log messages nicer.
435 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
436 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
437 partial results on small file reads.
439 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
440 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
441 more often than they are allowed to appear.
442 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
443 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
445 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
446 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
447 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
448 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
450 o Minor bugfixes (other):
451 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
452 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
453 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
454 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
455 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
456 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
457 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
458 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
459 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
460 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
462 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
463 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
464 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
466 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
467 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
468 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
469 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
471 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
472 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
473 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
475 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
476 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
479 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
480 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
481 implicit in other procedure arguments.
482 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
483 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
484 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
485 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
486 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
487 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
488 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
489 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
490 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
493 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
494 o Directory authority changes:
495 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
496 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
497 or use hidden services.
499 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
500 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
501 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
502 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
503 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
504 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
505 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
506 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
507 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
510 o Major bugfixes (security):
511 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
512 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
513 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
515 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
516 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
517 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
518 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
519 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
520 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
521 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
522 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
523 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
524 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
527 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
529 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
530 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
532 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
533 having a hard time downloading.
534 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
535 partial results on small file reads.
536 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
537 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
538 the gaps in the store get very large.
541 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
542 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
544 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
545 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
548 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
550 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
551 get one we don't recognize.
552 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
553 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
556 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
558 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
559 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
560 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
561 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
564 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
565 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
568 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
569 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
570 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
571 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
572 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
573 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
577 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
578 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
579 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
580 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
581 on Win98 and friends again.
583 o Minor bugfixes (other):
584 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
585 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
588 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
589 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
590 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
591 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
592 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
593 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
594 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
595 and maybe also bug 397.)
597 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
598 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
599 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
601 o Minor bugfixes (server):
602 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
605 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
606 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
607 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
608 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
609 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
611 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
612 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
615 o Minor bugfixes (other):
616 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
617 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
618 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
620 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
622 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
623 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
624 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
625 the last of bug 326.)
626 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
627 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
631 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
632 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
633 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
634 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
635 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
636 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
637 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
639 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
640 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
642 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
643 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
644 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
646 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
647 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
648 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
650 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
651 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
652 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
653 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
655 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
656 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
658 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
659 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
660 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
663 o Minor bugfixes (other):
664 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
665 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
666 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
667 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
668 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
669 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
670 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
671 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
672 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
673 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
674 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
675 other than file-not-found.
676 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
677 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
678 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
679 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
680 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
681 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
682 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
683 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
684 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
685 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
686 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
687 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
688 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
689 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
690 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
692 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
694 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
695 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
697 o Minor features (controller):
698 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
699 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
700 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
702 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
703 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
704 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
705 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
706 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
707 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
708 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
709 connected or resolved cell.
711 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
712 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
713 some profiles, but not others.)
714 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
715 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
716 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
719 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
721 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
722 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
723 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
724 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
725 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
726 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
727 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
728 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
729 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
730 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
731 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
732 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
733 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
734 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
735 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
737 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
740 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
741 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
742 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
743 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
744 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
745 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
746 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
748 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
749 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
750 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
751 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
752 buckets go absurdly negative.
753 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
754 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
757 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
758 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
759 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
760 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
761 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
762 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
763 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
764 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
767 o Major bugfixes (other):
768 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
769 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
770 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
771 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
773 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
775 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
776 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
778 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
779 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
780 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
781 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
782 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
785 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
786 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
787 possible memory-stomping bugs.
788 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
789 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
791 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
792 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
793 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
794 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
795 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
796 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
798 o Minor bugfixes (other):
799 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
800 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
801 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
803 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
804 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
805 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
806 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
807 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
808 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
809 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
810 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
811 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
812 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
813 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
814 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
815 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
817 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
818 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
819 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
820 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
821 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
822 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
823 to the resulting address.
826 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
827 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
828 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
829 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
832 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
833 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
835 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
836 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
837 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
838 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
839 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
840 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
841 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
842 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
843 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
844 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
845 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
846 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
847 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
848 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
849 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
850 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
851 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
854 o Minor features (controller):
855 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
856 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
857 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
858 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
859 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
860 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
861 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
865 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
867 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
868 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
869 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
870 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
871 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
872 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
875 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
876 weren't planning to resolve.
877 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
878 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
879 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
880 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
881 the controller from learning about current events.
883 o Minor features (more controller status events):
884 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
885 learn when our address changes.
886 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
887 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
888 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
889 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
891 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
892 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
893 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
894 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
895 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
896 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
897 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
898 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
899 are accepted by a directory.
900 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
901 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
902 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
903 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
904 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
906 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
907 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
908 about changes to DNS server status.
910 o Minor features (directory):
911 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
912 too much load to the exit nodes.
915 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
917 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
918 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
919 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
920 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
921 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
923 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
924 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
925 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
927 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
928 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
929 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
930 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
931 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
932 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
933 config options if you like.
935 o Minor features (config and docs):
936 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
937 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
938 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
939 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
940 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
942 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
943 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
944 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
945 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
946 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
948 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
949 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
950 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
951 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
952 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
953 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
954 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
955 documentation: "make check-docs".
956 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
957 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
959 o Minor features (DNS):
960 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
961 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
962 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
963 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
964 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
965 our tests for DNS hijacking.
967 o Minor features (directory):
968 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
969 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
970 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
971 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
972 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
973 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
974 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
975 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
976 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
977 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
978 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
979 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
980 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
981 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
982 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
983 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
984 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
985 for the thing we're trying to download.
986 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
987 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
988 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
990 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
991 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
992 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
995 o Minor features (controller):
996 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
997 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
999 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
1000 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
1001 entry guard status as it changes.
1003 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
1004 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
1005 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
1006 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
1008 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
1009 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
1010 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
1011 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
1014 o Major bugfixes (security):
1015 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
1016 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
1017 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
1018 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
1020 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
1021 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
1022 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
1023 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
1024 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
1026 o Major bugfixes (other):
1027 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
1028 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
1029 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
1030 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
1032 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
1033 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
1034 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
1035 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
1036 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
1037 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
1041 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
1042 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
1043 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
1044 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
1045 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
1047 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
1048 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
1050 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
1051 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
1052 family lists conveniently.
1053 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
1054 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
1055 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
1057 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
1058 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
1060 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
1061 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
1062 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
1063 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
1064 if their identity keys are as expected.
1065 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
1066 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
1067 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
1069 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1070 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
1071 reported by Mike Perry.
1072 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
1073 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
1074 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
1075 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
1078 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
1079 o Security bugfixes:
1080 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
1081 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
1082 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
1083 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
1087 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
1088 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
1089 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
1092 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
1094 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
1095 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
1096 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
1099 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
1100 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
1101 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
1102 watching for STREAM events.
1103 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
1104 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
1105 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
1106 operations, for profiling.
1109 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
1110 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
1111 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
1112 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
1113 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
1114 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
1116 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
1120 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
1121 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
1122 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
1123 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
1124 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
1126 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
1127 correctly in the Windows installer.
1128 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
1129 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
1130 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
1132 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
1133 when we're running as a client.
1136 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
1138 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
1139 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
1140 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
1141 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
1142 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
1143 its circuits on demand.
1144 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
1145 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
1146 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
1147 connections more stable on average.
1148 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
1149 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
1150 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
1152 o Security bugfixes:
1153 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
1154 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
1157 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
1159 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
1160 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
1161 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
1162 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
1163 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
1164 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
1165 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
1166 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
1169 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
1171 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
1172 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
1173 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
1174 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
1175 routers for even longer.
1176 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
1177 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
1178 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
1179 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
1180 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
1181 caching HTTP proxies.
1182 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
1185 o Minor features, controller:
1186 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
1187 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
1188 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
1189 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
1191 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
1192 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
1193 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
1194 working much like those for circuit events.
1195 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
1196 about the current status of a router.
1197 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
1198 a router's status has changed.
1199 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
1200 can tell which events and features are supported.
1201 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
1202 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
1204 o Security bugfixes:
1205 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
1206 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
1209 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
1210 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
1211 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
1212 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
1213 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
1214 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
1215 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
1216 long nicknames where appropriate.
1217 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
1218 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
1219 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
1220 chews through many circuits before giving up.
1221 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
1222 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
1223 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
1224 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
1225 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
1226 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
1228 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
1229 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
1230 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
1232 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
1233 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
1234 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
1235 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
1236 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
1237 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
1238 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
1239 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
1240 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
1241 (reported by fookoowa).
1242 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
1243 and reported by some Centos users.
1244 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
1245 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
1246 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
1247 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
1248 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
1249 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
1250 before we check for libevent.
1253 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
1255 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
1256 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
1257 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
1258 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
1259 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
1260 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
1261 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
1262 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
1263 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
1264 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
1265 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
1266 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
1267 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
1268 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
1269 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
1270 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
1271 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
1272 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
1273 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
1274 lets you turn it off.
1275 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
1276 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
1277 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
1278 us into the directory more quickly.
1280 o New/improved config options:
1281 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
1282 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
1283 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
1284 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
1285 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
1286 all the machines on the same subnet.
1287 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
1288 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
1289 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
1290 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
1291 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
1292 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
1293 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
1294 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
1295 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
1296 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
1298 o Minor features, controller:
1299 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
1300 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
1301 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
1302 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
1303 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
1304 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
1305 for more information.
1306 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
1307 best guess to the user.
1308 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
1309 descriptor has changed.
1310 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
1312 o Minor features, other:
1313 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
1314 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
1315 useful to the network.
1316 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
1317 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
1318 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
1319 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
1320 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
1321 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
1322 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
1323 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
1324 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
1325 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
1326 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
1327 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
1328 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
1329 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
1330 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
1332 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
1333 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
1334 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
1335 could return an unnamed server instead.
1336 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
1337 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
1338 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
1339 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
1340 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
1341 a more attractive target for compromise.)
1342 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
1343 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
1344 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
1346 o Major bugfixes, other:
1347 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
1348 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
1349 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
1350 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
1351 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
1352 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
1353 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
1354 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
1355 its circuits on demand.
1356 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
1357 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
1358 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
1359 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
1361 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
1362 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
1363 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
1365 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
1367 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
1368 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
1369 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
1370 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
1371 "extendcircuit" request.
1372 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
1373 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
1374 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
1376 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
1377 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
1378 instead of "X resolved to X".
1379 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
1380 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
1381 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
1382 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
1383 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
1384 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
1385 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
1386 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
1387 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
1389 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
1390 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
1391 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
1392 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
1393 result more than once.
1394 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
1395 non-versioning dirservers.
1396 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
1397 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
1399 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
1400 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
1401 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
1402 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
1403 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
1404 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
1405 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
1406 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
1407 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
1409 o Packaging, features:
1410 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
1411 now universal binaries.
1412 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
1413 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
1414 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
1416 o Packaging, bugfixes:
1417 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
1418 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
1419 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
1420 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
1422 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
1423 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
1424 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
1427 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
1428 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
1429 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
1433 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
1435 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
1436 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
1437 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
1438 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
1439 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
1440 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
1441 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
1442 it can't resolve its hostname.
1445 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
1446 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
1447 "extendcircuit" request.
1448 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
1449 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
1450 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
1451 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
1453 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
1454 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
1455 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
1457 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
1458 methods: these are known to be buggy.
1459 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
1460 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
1464 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
1466 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
1467 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
1468 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
1469 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
1470 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
1471 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
1472 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
1473 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
1474 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
1475 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
1476 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
1477 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
1478 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
1479 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
1480 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
1481 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
1482 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
1483 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
1484 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
1485 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
1486 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
1487 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
1488 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
1489 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
1492 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
1493 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
1494 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
1495 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
1496 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
1497 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
1498 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
1499 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
1500 recommendation system saner.)
1501 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
1503 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
1504 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
1505 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
1506 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
1507 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
1508 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
1509 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
1510 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
1511 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
1512 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
1513 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
1514 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
1516 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
1517 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
1518 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
1519 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
1520 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
1521 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
1522 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
1523 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
1524 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
1525 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
1526 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
1527 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
1529 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
1530 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
1531 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
1532 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
1533 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
1534 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
1537 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
1538 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
1539 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
1540 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
1541 our DirPort now, etc.
1542 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
1543 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
1544 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
1545 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
1546 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
1547 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
1548 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
1550 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
1551 whether the config options are bad or good.
1552 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
1553 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
1554 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
1555 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
1556 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
1557 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
1558 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
1559 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
1562 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
1563 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
1564 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
1565 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
1566 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
1567 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
1568 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
1569 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
1570 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
1571 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
1572 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
1573 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
1574 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
1575 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
1576 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
1577 of it), is not therefore "up".
1578 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
1579 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
1580 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
1581 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
1582 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
1583 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
1586 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
1588 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
1589 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
1590 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
1591 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
1592 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
1593 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
1594 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
1595 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
1596 test reachability, so you won't publish.
1599 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
1600 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
1601 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
1602 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
1603 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
1605 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
1606 own server descriptor yet.
1609 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
1611 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
1612 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
1613 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
1614 make sure to test via one of these.
1615 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
1616 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
1617 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
1618 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
1619 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
1621 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
1622 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
1623 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
1626 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
1627 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
1628 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
1629 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
1630 directory authority.
1631 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
1632 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
1633 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
1634 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
1637 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
1638 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
1639 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
1641 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
1642 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
1643 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
1644 current guards when picking a new guard.
1645 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
1646 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
1647 when we had more than one pending.
1648 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
1649 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
1650 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
1651 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
1652 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
1653 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
1654 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
1655 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
1656 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
1657 debug the reachability problems better.
1659 o Log / documentation fixes:
1660 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
1661 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
1662 about protocol violations by others.
1663 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
1664 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
1665 about what happened to our old torrc.
1668 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
1670 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
1672 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
1673 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
1674 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
1675 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
1678 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
1680 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
1681 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
1682 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
1683 old ORPort and receive connections.
1684 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
1686 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
1687 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
1688 and network-statuses.
1689 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
1690 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
1691 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
1692 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
1694 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
1697 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
1698 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
1699 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
1702 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
1704 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
1705 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
1706 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
1707 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
1708 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
1711 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
1712 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
1714 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
1715 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
1716 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
1717 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
1718 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
1719 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
1720 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
1721 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
1722 rather than not sending anything back at all.
1723 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
1724 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
1725 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
1726 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
1727 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
1728 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
1729 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
1730 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
1731 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
1732 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
1733 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
1734 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
1735 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
1736 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
1737 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
1738 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
1739 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
1740 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
1741 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
1742 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
1743 default ulimit -n is 1024.
1746 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
1747 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
1748 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
1749 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
1752 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
1754 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
1755 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
1756 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
1757 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
1758 entry guards running these flawed versions.
1759 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
1760 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
1761 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
1762 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
1763 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
1766 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
1767 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
1769 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
1770 and it is confusing some users.
1771 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
1772 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
1773 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
1774 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
1775 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
1778 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
1780 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
1781 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
1782 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
1783 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
1784 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
1785 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
1786 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
1787 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
1788 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
1789 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
1790 dirport is set for now.
1792 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
1793 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
1794 unattached before we fail it?
1795 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
1796 at least this many seconds ago.
1797 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
1798 at least this many seconds ago.
1801 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
1802 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
1803 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
1804 or resolve-wait stream.
1805 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
1806 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
1807 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
1808 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
1809 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
1810 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
1811 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
1812 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
1814 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
1815 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
1816 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
1817 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
1818 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
1819 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
1820 given as hex digests.
1821 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
1822 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
1823 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
1824 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
1825 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
1826 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
1827 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
1828 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
1831 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1832 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
1833 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
1834 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
1835 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
1836 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
1837 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
1838 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
1839 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
1840 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
1841 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
1844 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
1845 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
1846 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
1847 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
1848 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
1849 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
1850 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
1853 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
1854 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
1855 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
1856 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
1857 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
1858 misreading their logs.
1859 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
1860 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
1861 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
1862 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
1863 valid router descriptors.
1864 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
1865 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
1866 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
1867 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
1868 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
1869 silently resetting it to its default.
1870 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
1872 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
1875 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
1877 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
1878 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
1879 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
1880 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
1881 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
1883 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
1884 because older Tors do not understand it.
1885 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
1889 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
1890 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
1891 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
1892 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
1893 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
1894 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
1895 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
1896 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
1897 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
1898 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
1899 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
1901 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
1902 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
1903 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
1904 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
1906 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
1907 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
1910 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
1911 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
1912 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
1913 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
1914 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
1915 without getting overloaded.
1916 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
1918 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
1919 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
1920 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
1921 be forward-compatible.
1922 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
1923 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
1924 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
1925 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
1927 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
1928 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
1929 and OR conns to port 443.
1930 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
1931 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
1933 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
1934 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
1935 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
1936 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
1937 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
1938 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
1939 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
1942 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
1943 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1944 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
1945 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
1947 o Other important bugfixes:
1948 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
1949 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
1950 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
1951 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
1953 o Backported features:
1954 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
1955 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
1956 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
1957 without getting overloaded.
1958 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
1959 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
1960 503's whenever they feel busy.
1961 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
1962 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
1963 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
1964 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
1965 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
1968 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
1969 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
1970 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
1971 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
1972 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
1973 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
1974 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
1975 know if the crashes continue.
1976 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
1977 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
1978 seg faults in at least some cases.)
1979 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
1980 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
1981 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
1984 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
1985 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
1986 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
1987 try to be a bit more fair.
1988 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
1989 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
1990 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
1991 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
1992 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
1993 bug that let it go negative.
1994 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
1995 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
1996 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
1997 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
1998 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
1999 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
2000 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
2001 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
2002 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
2003 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
2004 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
2007 - Clients not longer download descriptors for non-running
2009 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
2010 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
2011 service descriptors.
2014 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
2015 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
2016 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
2017 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
2019 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
2020 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
2021 versions *are* still recommended.
2022 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
2023 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
2024 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
2025 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
2026 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
2027 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
2028 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
2029 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
2031 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
2032 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
2033 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
2034 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
2035 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
2036 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
2037 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
2038 on it. Not used by clients yet.
2039 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
2040 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
2041 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
2042 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
2043 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
2044 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
2045 established a circuit.
2046 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
2047 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
2048 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
2049 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
2052 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
2053 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
2054 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
2055 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
2056 quickly enough. Oops.
2057 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
2059 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2060 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
2063 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
2064 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
2065 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
2066 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
2067 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
2068 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
2069 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
2070 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
2071 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
2072 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
2073 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
2074 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
2075 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
2076 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
2077 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
2078 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
2079 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
2082 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
2083 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
2084 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
2085 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
2086 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
2087 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
2088 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
2089 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
2090 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
2091 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
2092 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
2093 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
2094 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
2095 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
2096 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
2097 connections more reliable.
2100 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
2101 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
2102 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
2103 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
2104 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
2105 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
2106 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
2107 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
2108 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
2109 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
2110 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
2111 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
2112 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
2113 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
2117 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
2118 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
2119 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
2120 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
2121 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
2122 need to be uint64_t's.
2123 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
2124 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
2125 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
2127 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
2129 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
2130 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
2131 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
2132 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
2133 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
2134 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
2135 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
2137 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
2138 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
2139 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
2140 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
2141 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
2142 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
2143 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
2144 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
2145 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
2146 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
2147 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
2148 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
2149 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
2152 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
2153 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
2154 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
2155 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
2156 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
2157 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
2158 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
2160 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
2161 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
2162 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
2163 can answer v2 directory requests too.
2164 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
2165 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
2166 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
2167 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
2169 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
2170 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
2171 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
2172 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
2173 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
2174 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
2175 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
2176 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
2177 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
2178 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
2179 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
2180 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
2181 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
2182 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
2183 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
2185 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
2186 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
2189 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
2190 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2191 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
2192 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
2193 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
2194 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
2195 too -- so detect and avoid this.
2196 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
2198 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
2199 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
2200 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
2201 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
2202 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
2203 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
2204 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
2205 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
2206 rendezvous circuits.
2207 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
2209 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2210 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
2211 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
2212 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
2213 advertising it because of hibernation.
2214 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
2215 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
2216 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
2217 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
2218 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
2219 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
2220 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
2221 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
2222 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
2223 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
2224 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
2225 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
2226 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
2227 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
2230 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
2231 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2232 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
2233 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
2234 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
2235 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
2236 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
2237 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
2238 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
2239 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
2240 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
2241 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
2242 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
2243 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
2244 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
2245 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
2246 connections once a week.
2247 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
2248 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
2249 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
2250 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
2251 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
2252 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
2254 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
2255 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
2256 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
2258 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2259 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
2260 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
2261 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
2262 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
2263 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
2264 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
2265 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
2266 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
2267 firewall options forbid.
2268 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
2269 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
2270 can only proxy to certain destinations.
2271 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
2272 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
2273 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
2274 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
2275 aids some statistical attacks.
2276 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
2277 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
2278 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
2279 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
2281 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
2282 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
2283 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
2284 server descriptor sometimes.
2285 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
2286 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
2287 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
2288 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
2289 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
2290 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
2291 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
2292 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
2294 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
2295 case the controller wants to change that too.
2296 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
2297 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
2298 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
2299 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
2301 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
2302 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
2303 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
2305 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
2306 descriptors that they know they will reject.
2308 o Features and updates:
2309 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
2310 significantly faster.
2311 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
2312 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
2313 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
2314 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
2315 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
2316 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
2317 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
2318 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
2319 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
2320 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
2321 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
2322 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
2323 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
2324 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
2325 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
2326 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
2327 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
2328 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
2329 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
2330 as authoritative dirserver.
2331 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
2332 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
2333 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
2336 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
2337 o Usability improvements:
2338 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
2339 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
2341 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
2342 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
2343 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
2345 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
2346 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
2347 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
2348 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
2349 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
2350 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
2351 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
2352 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
2353 memory leaks better.
2354 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
2355 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
2356 their operators to pay close attention.
2357 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
2358 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
2360 o Performance improvements:
2361 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
2362 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
2363 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
2364 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
2365 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
2366 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
2367 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
2368 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
2369 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
2370 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
2371 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
2372 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
2373 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
2374 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
2375 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
2376 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
2377 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
2379 o Security improvements:
2380 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
2381 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
2382 fingerprint of server.
2383 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
2384 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
2385 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
2387 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2388 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
2389 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
2390 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
2391 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
2392 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
2393 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
2394 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
2395 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
2396 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
2397 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
2398 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
2399 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
2400 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
2401 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
2402 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
2403 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
2404 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
2405 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
2406 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
2407 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
2409 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
2410 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
2411 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
2413 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
2414 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
2416 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
2417 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
2418 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
2419 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
2420 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
2421 of the controller protocol.
2422 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
2423 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
2424 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
2427 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
2428 o New features (major):
2429 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
2430 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
2431 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
2432 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
2433 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
2434 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
2435 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
2436 we're using a default DirPort.
2437 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
2439 o New features (minor):
2440 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
2441 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
2442 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
2443 mirrors still cache and serve it).
2444 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
2445 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
2446 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
2447 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
2448 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
2449 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
2450 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
2451 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
2452 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
2453 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
2454 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
2455 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
2456 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
2457 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
2458 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
2460 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
2461 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
2462 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
2463 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
2464 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
2465 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
2466 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
2467 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
2469 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
2470 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
2471 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
2472 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
2473 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
2474 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
2475 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
2476 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
2477 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
2478 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
2480 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
2481 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
2482 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
2483 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
2484 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
2487 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
2488 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
2490 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
2491 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
2493 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
2494 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
2495 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
2496 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
2497 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
2498 don't warn twice about the same name.
2499 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
2500 if we've not heard of the server.
2501 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
2502 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
2505 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
2506 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2507 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
2508 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
2509 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
2510 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
2511 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
2512 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
2513 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
2514 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
2515 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
2516 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
2517 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
2518 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
2519 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
2522 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
2523 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
2524 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
2525 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
2526 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
2528 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
2529 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
2530 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
2531 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
2532 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
2533 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
2537 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
2538 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
2539 nickname) is reachable by you.
2540 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
2544 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
2545 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
2546 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
2547 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
2548 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
2549 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
2550 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
2551 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
2552 we fail to connect).
2553 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
2554 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
2555 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
2556 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
2558 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
2559 it was self-testing that told us so.
2562 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
2563 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
2564 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
2565 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
2566 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
2567 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
2568 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
2569 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
2570 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
2571 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
2572 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
2573 exit policy using him for any exits.
2574 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
2577 o New controller features/fixes:
2578 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
2579 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
2580 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
2581 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
2582 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
2583 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
2584 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
2585 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
2586 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
2588 o Start on the new directory design:
2589 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
2590 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
2592 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
2593 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
2594 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
2595 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
2597 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
2598 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
2599 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
2600 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
2601 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
2602 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
2603 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
2604 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
2607 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
2608 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
2609 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
2610 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
2611 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
2612 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
2613 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
2614 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
2615 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
2616 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
2618 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
2619 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
2620 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
2621 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
2622 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
2623 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
2624 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
2625 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
2626 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
2628 o Config option changes:
2629 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
2630 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
2631 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
2632 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
2633 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
2634 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
2637 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
2638 people have started using them for spam too.
2639 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
2640 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
2641 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
2642 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
2643 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
2644 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
2645 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
2646 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
2647 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
2648 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
2649 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
2650 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
2651 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
2652 services faster on the service end.
2653 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
2654 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
2655 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
2656 it a fair shake next time we try.
2657 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
2658 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
2659 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
2660 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
2661 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
2662 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
2663 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
2664 able to discover them.
2665 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
2666 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
2667 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
2668 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
2669 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
2670 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
2671 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
2672 testing for reachability.
2673 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
2674 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
2676 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
2678 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
2679 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
2682 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
2683 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
2685 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2686 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
2687 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
2688 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
2691 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
2692 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2693 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
2695 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
2696 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
2699 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
2700 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
2703 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
2704 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
2705 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
2706 options, getinfo keys.
2709 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
2710 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2711 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
2712 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
2713 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
2714 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
2715 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
2717 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
2718 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
2722 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
2723 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
2724 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
2726 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
2728 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
2729 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
2730 circuit events and we go offline.
2731 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
2732 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
2733 you don't have enough intro points already.
2735 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
2736 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
2737 many bytes we've used in this time period.
2738 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
2739 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
2740 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
2741 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
2742 enabled by default yet.
2744 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
2745 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
2746 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
2747 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
2748 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
2751 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
2752 o New directory servers:
2753 - tor26 has changed IP address.
2755 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2756 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
2757 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
2759 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
2760 claims its dirport is 0.
2761 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
2762 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
2766 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
2767 o New directory servers:
2768 - tor26 has changed IP address.
2770 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
2771 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
2773 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
2774 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
2775 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
2776 ports that have changed.
2777 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
2779 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
2780 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
2781 Windows-style errno back.
2782 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
2784 want to make it an NT service.
2785 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
2786 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
2787 name, give the full name in our response.
2788 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
2789 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
2790 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
2791 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
2794 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
2795 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
2799 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
2800 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
2801 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
2802 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
2803 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
2806 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
2807 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2808 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
2809 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
2810 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
2811 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
2812 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
2813 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
2816 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
2818 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
2819 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
2820 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
2821 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
2822 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
2823 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
2825 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
2826 temporarily unreachable.
2827 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
2831 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
2832 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
2833 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
2835 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
2839 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
2840 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
2841 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
2842 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
2843 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
2847 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
2848 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
2849 libevent before 1.1a.
2852 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
2854 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
2855 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
2856 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
2857 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
2858 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
2860 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
2861 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
2862 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
2863 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
2864 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
2865 of CPU time plus memory.
2866 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
2867 normal web requests.
2868 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
2869 tor_lookup_hostname().
2870 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
2871 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
2872 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
2873 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
2874 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
2875 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
2877 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
2878 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
2879 HttpProxyAuthenticator
2880 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
2881 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
2882 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
2884 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
2885 the user asks you to.
2886 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
2887 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
2888 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
2889 their descriptors are being rejected.
2890 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
2894 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
2896 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
2897 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
2898 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
2900 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
2902 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
2904 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
2905 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
2906 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
2907 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
2908 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
2909 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
2910 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
2911 keys) from the exit server's process.
2912 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
2913 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
2914 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
2915 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
2916 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
2917 point at your Tor server.
2918 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
2919 you're not sending a socks reply back.
2922 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
2923 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
2924 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
2925 to make it easier to write controllers.
2928 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
2930 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
2931 installing on Tiger.
2932 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
2933 complain during installation.
2934 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
2935 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
2936 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
2937 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
2938 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
2939 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
2941 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
2942 something more reasonable when first installing.
2943 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
2946 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
2948 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
2949 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
2951 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
2952 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
2953 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
2954 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
2955 when using the default exit policy.
2956 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
2957 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
2958 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
2959 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
2960 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
2961 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
2962 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
2963 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
2964 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
2965 we fetched a new directory.
2966 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
2967 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
2970 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
2971 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
2972 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
2973 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
2974 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
2975 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
2976 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
2977 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
2979 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
2980 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
2981 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
2982 save memory on systems that need to fork.
2983 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
2984 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
2985 is valid without actually launching Tor.
2986 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
2987 rather than just rejecting it.
2990 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
2992 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
2993 we didn't like its cert.
2995 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
2996 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
2997 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
2998 on patch from Adam Langley.
2999 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
3000 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
3001 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
3002 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
3004 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
3005 directory every time you regenerate it.
3006 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
3007 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
3010 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
3011 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3012 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
3013 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
3014 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
3017 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
3019 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
3020 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
3021 TLS errors better in other situations too.
3022 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
3023 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
3024 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
3025 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
3026 and don't log when you are.
3027 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
3028 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
3030 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
3031 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
3032 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
3033 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
3034 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
3037 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
3038 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
3039 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
3040 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
3041 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
3042 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
3043 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
3044 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
3045 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
3046 nickname+key are allowed.
3047 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
3048 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
3049 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
3050 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
3051 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
3052 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
3053 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
3054 have quite wrong clocks).
3055 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
3056 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
3057 - Efficiency improvements:
3058 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
3059 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
3060 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
3061 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
3062 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
3063 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
3064 lowercase and be done with it.
3065 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
3066 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
3067 to abandon partially built circuits.
3068 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
3069 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
3071 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
3073 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
3074 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
3075 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
3076 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
3078 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
3079 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
3081 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
3082 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
3083 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
3084 obeying the exit policy internally.
3085 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
3086 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
3088 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
3089 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
3090 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
3091 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
3093 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
3094 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
3095 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
3096 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
3097 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
3099 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
3100 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
3101 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
3102 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
3103 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
3104 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
3105 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
3106 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
3107 descriptors we just dropped.
3108 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
3109 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
3110 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
3111 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
3112 artificially capped at 500kB.
3115 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
3116 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3117 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
3118 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
3119 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
3120 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
3121 busy for more than 100 seconds.
3124 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
3125 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
3126 - Fixes on reachability detection:
3127 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
3128 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
3129 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
3130 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
3131 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
3132 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
3133 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
3134 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
3135 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
3136 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
3137 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
3138 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
3139 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
3140 server not already connected to them.
3141 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
3142 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
3143 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
3145 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
3147 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
3148 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
3149 are in a different state than they actually are.
3150 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
3151 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
3152 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
3154 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
3155 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
3156 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
3158 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
3159 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
3160 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
3161 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
3162 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
3163 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
3164 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
3166 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
3167 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
3168 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
3169 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
3172 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
3173 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3174 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
3175 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
3176 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
3177 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
3178 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
3179 creating actual system users.
3180 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
3181 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
3185 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
3187 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
3188 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
3189 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
3190 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
3191 hidden services better.
3192 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
3194 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
3195 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
3196 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
3197 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
3198 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
3199 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
3200 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
3201 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
3202 patch by Matt Edman).
3203 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
3204 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
3205 required exit node for certain sites.
3206 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
3207 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
3208 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
3209 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
3210 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
3211 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
3212 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
3213 rather than just "success" or "failure".
3214 - A more sane version numbering system. See
3215 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
3216 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
3217 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
3219 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
3220 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
3221 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
3222 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
3223 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
3224 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
3225 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
3227 o Robustness/stability fixes:
3228 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
3229 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
3230 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
3232 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
3233 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
3234 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
3236 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
3237 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
3238 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
3240 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
3241 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
3242 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
3243 that will want high uptime circuits.
3244 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
3245 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
3246 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
3247 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
3248 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
3249 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
3250 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
3251 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
3252 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
3253 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
3254 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
3255 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
3256 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
3257 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
3258 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
3259 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
3260 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
3261 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
3262 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
3263 when we try to launch one.
3264 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
3265 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
3266 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
3267 "ShutdownWaitLength".
3268 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
3269 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
3270 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
3271 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
3272 and to take errno into account where possible.
3275 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
3276 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
3277 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
3278 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
3279 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
3280 file more reasonable.
3281 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
3282 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
3283 addresses -- it won't.
3284 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
3285 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
3286 for google.com" problem.
3287 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
3288 so it's not just "unknown platform".
3289 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
3290 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
3291 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
3292 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
3294 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
3295 they could use instead.
3296 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
3297 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
3298 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
3299 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
3300 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
3301 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
3302 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
3303 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
3304 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
3306 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
3310 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
3311 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
3313 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
3314 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
3315 private-IP addresses.
3316 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
3317 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
3319 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
3320 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
3321 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
3322 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
3323 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
3324 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
3325 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
3327 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
3328 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
3329 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
3330 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
3331 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
3332 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
3333 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
3334 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
3336 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
3338 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
3339 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
3340 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
3341 whether the server is hibernating.
3344 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
3345 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
3346 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
3347 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
3348 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
3349 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
3350 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
3351 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
3352 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
3353 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
3354 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
3355 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
3356 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
3357 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
3358 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
3360 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
3361 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
3362 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
3363 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
3364 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
3365 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
3366 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
3367 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
3368 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
3369 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
3370 existing torrc files.
3371 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
3374 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
3375 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3376 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
3377 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
3378 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
3379 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
3380 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
3381 the win32 SYSTEM account.
3382 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
3383 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
3384 file descriptors available.
3385 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
3386 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
3387 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
3390 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
3391 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
3392 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
3393 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
3395 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
3396 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
3397 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
3398 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
3399 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
3401 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
3402 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
3403 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
3404 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
3405 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
3406 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
3407 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
3408 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
3409 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
3410 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
3411 800kB/s of capacity.
3412 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
3415 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
3416 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
3417 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
3418 need as much processor time.
3419 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
3420 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
3421 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
3422 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
3423 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
3424 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
3425 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
3426 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
3427 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
3428 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
3429 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
3430 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
3432 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
3433 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
3434 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
3435 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
3436 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
3437 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
3438 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
3441 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
3442 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
3443 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
3445 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
3446 style address, then we'd crash.
3447 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
3448 a dirserver is broken.
3449 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
3451 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
3452 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
3453 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
3455 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
3456 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
3457 name out of the warning/assert messages.
3458 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
3459 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
3460 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
3462 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
3463 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
3464 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
3466 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
3468 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
3469 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
3470 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
3471 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
3472 values at once couldn't work.
3473 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
3474 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
3475 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
3476 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
3477 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
3478 they can handle any number of routers.
3479 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
3480 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
3481 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
3482 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
3483 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
3484 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
3485 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
3486 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
3487 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
3490 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
3491 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
3492 - Make hibernation actually work.
3493 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
3494 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
3495 don't use the stream status code.
3498 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
3500 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
3501 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
3503 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
3506 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
3507 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
3508 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
3509 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
3510 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
3511 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
3512 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
3513 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
3514 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
3515 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
3517 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3518 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
3519 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
3520 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
3521 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
3522 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
3523 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
3524 - Make unit tests work on win32.
3527 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
3528 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
3529 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
3531 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
3532 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
3533 than just chopping them off.
3534 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
3536 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3537 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
3538 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
3539 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
3540 right after sending the begin cell.
3541 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
3542 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
3543 exit nodes too. Oops.
3546 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
3547 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
3548 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
3549 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
3550 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
3551 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
3552 the user knows which one it's talking about.
3553 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
3554 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
3555 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
3558 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
3559 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3560 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
3561 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
3563 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
3565 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
3566 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
3567 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
3569 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
3570 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
3571 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
3572 Clip rather than rejecting.
3573 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
3574 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
3577 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
3578 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
3579 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
3580 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
3582 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
3585 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
3586 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3587 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
3588 win32 socket errors better.
3590 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
3591 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
3594 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
3595 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3596 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
3597 so we don't see those messages days later.
3599 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
3600 - Make tor-resolve work again.
3601 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
3602 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
3605 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
3606 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
3607 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
3608 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
3610 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
3611 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
3612 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
3615 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
3616 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3617 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
3618 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
3619 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
3620 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
3621 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
3622 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
3623 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
3625 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
3626 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
3627 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
3628 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
3630 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
3631 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
3634 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
3635 hibernation properties by
3636 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
3637 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
3638 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
3639 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
3640 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
3641 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
3642 get back to normal.)
3643 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
3645 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
3646 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
3647 to fill the last cell completely.
3648 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
3651 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
3652 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3653 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
3654 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
3655 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
3656 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
3657 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
3658 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
3659 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
3660 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
3661 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
3663 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
3664 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
3665 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
3666 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
3667 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
3668 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
3669 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
3670 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
3672 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
3673 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
3674 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
3675 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
3676 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
3677 have it on start-up.
3680 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
3681 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
3682 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
3683 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
3684 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
3685 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
3686 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
3687 configuration to torrc.
3688 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
3689 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
3690 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
3691 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
3692 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
3694 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
3695 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
3696 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
3697 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
3698 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
3699 log more informatively.
3700 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
3701 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
3702 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
3703 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
3704 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
3705 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
3706 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
3707 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
3708 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
3709 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
3710 from each other, to hinder linkability.
3713 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
3714 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
3715 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
3716 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
3717 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
3718 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
3719 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
3721 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
3722 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
3723 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
3724 they ran out of file descriptors.
3725 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
3726 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
3727 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
3728 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
3729 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
3730 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
3731 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
3733 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
3736 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
3737 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
3738 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
3739 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
3740 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
3741 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
3742 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
3743 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
3744 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
3745 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
3746 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
3747 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
3748 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
3749 with the control port.
3750 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
3751 use in authenticating to the control interface.
3752 - New log format in config:
3753 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
3754 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
3757 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
3758 from their dirserver.
3759 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
3761 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
3762 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
3763 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
3764 them act more like real nodes.
3765 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
3766 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
3768 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
3769 nickname to its identity key.
3770 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
3771 not on the command line.
3772 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
3773 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
3774 1024) file descriptors.
3776 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
3777 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
3779 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
3780 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
3781 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
3784 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
3785 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
3786 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
3787 exit policy, not reject *:*.
3788 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
3789 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
3790 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
3791 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
3792 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
3793 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
3794 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
3797 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
3798 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
3799 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
3800 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
3801 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
3802 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
3803 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
3806 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
3807 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3808 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
3809 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
3810 the ones we find in directories.)
3811 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
3813 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
3814 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
3816 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
3817 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
3818 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
3820 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
3821 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
3822 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
3823 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
3825 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
3826 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
3827 any more exit policy lines.
3830 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
3831 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
3832 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
3833 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
3834 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
3835 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
3836 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
3837 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
3838 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
3839 will be able to get a directory.
3840 - Http proxy support
3841 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
3842 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
3843 be routed through this host.
3844 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
3845 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
3846 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
3847 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
3850 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
3852 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
3853 clients/servers with an open dirport.
3854 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
3855 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
3856 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
3857 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
3858 intermittent connections.
3859 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
3860 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
3862 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
3863 in reporting stats locally.
3864 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
3865 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
3866 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
3869 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
3871 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
3872 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
3875 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
3877 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
3878 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
3879 if you don't want it open.
3880 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
3881 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
3882 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
3883 intermittent connections.
3884 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
3886 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
3887 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
3888 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
3889 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
3890 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
3891 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
3892 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
3893 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
3894 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
3895 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
3896 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
3897 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
3898 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
3899 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
3900 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
3901 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
3904 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
3905 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
3906 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
3907 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
3908 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
3910 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
3912 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
3913 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
3914 specified in HTTP 1.0.
3915 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
3916 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
3917 than once per minute.
3918 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
3919 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
3922 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
3923 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
3926 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
3927 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
3928 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
3929 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
3932 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
3933 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
3935 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
3936 don't put it into the client dns cache.
3937 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
3938 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
3939 until we get our next directory.
3941 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
3942 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
3943 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
3944 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
3945 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
3946 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
3947 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
3948 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
3949 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
3950 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
3951 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
3953 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
3955 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
3956 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
3958 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
3959 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
3960 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
3962 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
3964 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
3965 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
3966 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
3967 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
3968 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
3969 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
3970 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
3971 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
3974 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
3975 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
3976 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
3977 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
3980 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
3981 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
3982 ask them to resolve the host "".
3985 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
3986 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
3987 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
3988 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
3989 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
3990 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
3991 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
3992 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
3993 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
3994 clients don't use this yet.)
3995 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
3996 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
3997 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
3998 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
3999 for pointing out this bug.)
4000 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
4001 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
4002 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
4003 kazaa, gnutella ports.
4004 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
4006 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
4007 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
4008 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
4009 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
4010 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
4011 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
4012 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
4013 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
4014 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
4016 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
4017 that's still handshaking.
4018 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
4019 you'll choose it for your path.
4020 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
4021 end relay cell, etc.
4022 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
4023 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
4024 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
4027 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
4028 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
4030 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
4031 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
4032 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
4033 list to decide who's running or verified.
4034 - Bugfixes and features:
4035 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
4036 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
4037 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
4038 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
4039 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
4040 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
4042 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
4043 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
4044 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
4045 know you might want to get it verified.
4046 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
4049 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
4051 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
4052 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
4053 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
4054 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
4057 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
4058 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
4059 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
4060 hadn't heard of before.
4063 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
4064 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
4065 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
4066 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
4067 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
4068 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
4069 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
4070 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
4071 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
4072 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
4073 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
4074 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
4075 - Directory caching.
4076 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
4077 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
4078 directory they've pulled down.
4079 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
4080 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
4081 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
4082 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
4083 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
4084 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
4085 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
4087 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
4088 This isn't used yet.
4089 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
4090 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
4091 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
4092 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
4093 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
4094 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
4095 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
4096 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
4097 - File and name management:
4098 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
4099 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
4101 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
4102 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
4103 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
4104 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
4105 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
4106 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
4107 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
4109 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
4110 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
4111 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
4112 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
4113 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
4115 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
4116 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
4117 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
4118 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
4119 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
4120 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
4121 - New docs in the tarball:
4123 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
4126 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
4127 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
4128 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
4131 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
4132 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
4133 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
4136 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
4137 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
4140 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
4141 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
4142 - Make it build on Win32 again.
4143 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
4144 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
4148 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
4150 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
4151 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
4152 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
4153 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
4154 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
4155 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
4156 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
4157 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
4158 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
4159 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
4162 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
4165 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
4166 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
4167 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
4168 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
4170 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
4171 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
4172 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
4174 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
4175 hidden service per 15-minute period.
4176 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
4177 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
4178 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
4179 o Fixes for security bugs:
4180 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
4181 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
4182 a trusted dirserver.
4184 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
4185 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
4186 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
4187 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
4188 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
4189 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
4190 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
4191 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
4192 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
4193 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
4195 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
4196 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
4197 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
4198 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
4200 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
4201 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
4202 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
4203 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
4204 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
4205 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
4206 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
4207 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
4208 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
4209 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
4210 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
4211 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
4212 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
4215 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
4216 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
4217 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
4218 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
4221 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
4222 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
4223 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
4224 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
4225 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
4226 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
4227 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
4231 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
4235 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
4236 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
4237 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
4238 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
4239 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
4241 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
4244 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
4245 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
4246 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
4247 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
4248 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
4249 o Better debugging for tls errors
4250 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
4251 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
4252 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
4253 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
4254 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
4255 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
4256 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
4257 o win32's close can't close a socket.
4260 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
4261 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
4262 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
4263 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
4264 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
4265 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
4266 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
4267 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
4268 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
4269 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
4270 just close the circ.
4271 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
4272 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
4273 (this was quite rare).
4276 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
4277 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
4278 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
4279 if you decrypted them correctly.
4280 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
4281 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
4282 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
4285 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
4286 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
4287 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
4288 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
4289 a second one and it works.
4290 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
4291 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
4292 alice would just have to wait to time out.
4293 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
4294 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
4295 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
4296 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
4297 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
4298 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
4299 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
4300 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
4301 i'd still like to find the bug though.
4302 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
4304 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
4308 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
4309 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
4310 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
4311 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
4312 he retries a couple of times
4313 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
4314 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
4315 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
4316 too long (they were sticking around forever).
4317 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
4321 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
4322 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
4323 - make hup work again
4324 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
4325 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
4326 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
4327 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
4328 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
4329 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
4331 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
4332 o changes from 0.0.5:
4333 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
4334 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
4335 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
4336 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
4337 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
4339 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
4340 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
4341 in-memory directories too
4344 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
4345 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
4348 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
4350 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
4351 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
4352 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
4353 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
4356 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
4360 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
4361 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
4363 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
4364 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
4365 but that aren't warnings
4368 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
4369 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
4370 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
4371 the dns farm to do it.
4372 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
4373 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
4375 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
4376 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
4377 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
4380 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
4381 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
4382 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
4383 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
4384 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
4385 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
4386 expect it to have a nickname.
4387 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
4388 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
4391 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
4392 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
4396 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
4397 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
4398 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
4399 - include missing header fcntl.h
4400 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
4401 - deal with hardware word alignment
4402 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
4403 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
4404 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
4405 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
4406 by kill -USR1 currently.
4407 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
4408 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
4409 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
4412 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
4413 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
4414 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
4417 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
4419 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
4420 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
4421 - And fix a few endian issues.
4424 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
4426 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
4427 try that circuit again: try a new one.
4428 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
4429 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
4430 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
4431 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
4432 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
4433 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
4435 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
4436 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
4437 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
4439 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
4441 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
4442 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
4443 side isn't reading right then.
4444 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
4446 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
4447 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
4448 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
4451 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
4453 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
4454 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
4457 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
4461 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
4463 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
4464 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
4465 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
4466 connection is finished.
4467 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
4468 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
4469 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
4470 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
4471 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
4472 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
4473 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
4474 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
4475 rather than warn and continue.
4476 - Make --version work
4477 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
4480 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
4482 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
4484 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
4485 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
4487 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
4488 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
4489 so you can collect coredumps there.
4491 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
4492 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
4493 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
4494 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
4495 dns cache actually gets populated.
4496 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
4497 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
4498 end cell down it first.
4499 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
4500 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
4503 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
4505 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
4506 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
4508 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
4509 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
4510 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
4511 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
4512 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
4513 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
4515 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
4517 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
4518 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
4519 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
4520 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
4521 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
4522 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
4524 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
4525 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
4528 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
4530 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
4531 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
4532 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
4533 tor. It even has a man page.
4534 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
4535 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
4536 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
4537 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
4539 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
4541 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
4544 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
4546 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
4548 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
4549 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
4550 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
4551 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
4552 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
4553 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
4554 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
4555 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
4556 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
4557 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
4558 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
4560 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
4561 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
4564 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
4566 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
4567 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
4570 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
4572 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
4573 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
4574 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
4575 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
4576 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
4577 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
4578 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
4579 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
4580 logfile so you know it's working.
4581 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
4582 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
4585 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
4587 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
4588 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
4589 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
4592 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
4594 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
4595 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
4596 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
4599 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
4600 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
4601 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
4603 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
4604 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
4606 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
4607 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
4608 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
4610 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
4611 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
4615 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
4617 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
4618 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
4619 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
4622 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
4623 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
4624 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
4625 - Add port ranges to exit policies
4626 - Add a conservative default exit policy
4627 - Warn if you're running tor as root
4628 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
4629 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
4630 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
4631 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
4633 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
4636 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
4637 o Robustness and bugfixes:
4638 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
4639 really screw things up.
4640 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
4642 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
4643 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
4645 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
4646 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
4647 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
4648 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
4649 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
4650 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
4653 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
4656 - Change default loglevel to warn.
4657 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
4658 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
4660 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
4663 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
4664 o Robustness and bugfixes:
4665 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
4666 - to get ownership/permissions right
4667 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
4668 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
4669 pull down a directory again
4670 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
4671 causing server crashes
4672 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
4673 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
4674 - exit if bind() fails
4675 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
4676 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
4677 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
4678 - fix minor bias in PRNG
4679 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
4682 - Wrote the design document (woo)
4684 o Circuit building and exit policies:
4685 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
4687 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
4688 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
4689 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
4690 exists, rather than failing
4691 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
4692 which AP connections are standing by
4693 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
4694 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
4695 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
4697 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
4698 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
4701 - APPort is now called SocksPort
4702 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
4704 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
4705 hardcoded (for dirservers)
4706 - Reloads config on HUP
4707 - Usage info on -h or --help
4708 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
4710 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
4711 o General stability:
4712 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
4713 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
4714 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
4715 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
4716 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
4717 to take down the network when I approve a new router
4718 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
4721 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
4722 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
4724 o Autoconf improvements:
4725 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
4726 - Make install now works
4727 - create var/lib/tor on make install
4728 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
4729 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
4731 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
4732 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
4733 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
4734 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup