1 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
2 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
3 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
4 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
5 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
6 congestion control fix detailed below.
8 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
9 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
10 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
11 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
12 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
13 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
14 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
16 o Major bugfixes (relay):
17 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
18 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
19 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
20 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
21 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
22 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
25 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
26 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
27 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
28 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
29 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
31 o Minor feature (authority):
32 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
34 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
35 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
37 o Minor features (geoip data):
38 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
39 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
41 o Minor features (relays):
42 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
43 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
44 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
45 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
48 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
49 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
50 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
52 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
53 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
54 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
55 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
57 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
58 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
59 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
63 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
64 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
65 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
66 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
69 o Major bugfixes (relay):
70 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
71 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
72 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
73 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
74 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
75 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
78 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
79 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
80 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
81 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
82 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
84 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
85 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
87 o Minor features (geoip data):
88 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
89 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
92 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
93 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
94 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
97 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
98 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
99 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
100 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
101 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
103 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
104 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
107 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
108 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
110 o Minor features (geoip data):
111 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
112 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
114 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
115 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
116 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
119 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
120 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
121 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
122 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
124 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
125 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
127 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
128 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
129 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
131 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
132 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
133 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
134 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
135 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
137 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
138 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
139 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
140 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
141 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
144 o Major bugfixes (relay):
145 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
146 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
148 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
149 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
151 o Minor features (geoip data):
152 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
153 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
156 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
157 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
158 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
159 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
162 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
163 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
165 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
166 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
167 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
168 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
170 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
171 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
172 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
173 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
174 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
176 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
177 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
178 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
179 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
180 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
182 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
183 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
184 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
185 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
186 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
189 o Major bugfixes (relay):
190 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
191 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
193 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
194 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
195 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
196 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
197 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
198 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
200 o Minor feature (metrics):
201 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
204 o Minor feature (performance):
205 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
206 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
207 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
209 o Minor feature (relay):
210 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
212 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
213 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
214 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
215 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
217 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
218 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
219 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
220 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
221 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
223 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
224 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
225 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
226 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
227 are currently opened and how many were created.
228 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
229 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
230 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
231 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
232 - Related to ticket 40194.
234 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
235 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
237 o Minor features (geoip data):
238 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
239 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
241 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
242 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
243 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
245 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
246 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
247 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
248 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
249 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
250 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
251 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
252 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
253 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
254 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
255 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
257 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
258 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
259 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
262 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
263 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
264 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
267 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
268 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
269 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
270 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
271 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
272 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
273 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
275 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
276 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
277 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
280 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
281 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
282 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
283 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
286 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
287 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
288 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
289 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
290 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
293 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
294 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
295 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
296 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
299 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
300 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
301 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
302 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
303 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
306 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
307 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
308 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
309 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
312 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
313 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
314 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
315 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
316 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
319 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
320 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
321 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
322 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
323 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
326 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
327 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
329 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
330 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
331 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
332 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
333 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
334 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
335 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
336 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
337 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
340 o Major bugfixes (relay):
341 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
342 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
343 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
344 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
345 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
346 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
347 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
349 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
350 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
351 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
352 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
353 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
356 o Minor features (dirauth):
357 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
358 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
359 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
360 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
361 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
362 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
363 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
364 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
367 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
368 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
370 o Minor features (geoip data):
371 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
372 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
374 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
375 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
376 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
377 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
378 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
379 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
380 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
382 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
383 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
384 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
385 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
386 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
388 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
389 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
390 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
391 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
394 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
395 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
396 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
397 stability or safety purposes.
399 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
400 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
401 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
403 o Major bugfixes (relay):
404 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
405 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
406 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
407 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
408 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
409 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
410 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
412 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
413 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
415 o Minor features (geoip data):
416 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
417 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
419 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
420 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
421 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
423 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
424 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
425 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
426 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
427 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
428 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
430 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
431 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
432 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
433 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
434 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
436 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
437 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
438 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
439 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
441 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
442 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
443 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
444 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
445 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
447 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
448 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
449 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
451 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
452 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
453 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
454 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
455 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
456 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
458 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
459 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
460 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
461 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
464 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
465 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
466 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
467 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
468 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
470 o Major bugfixes (relay):
471 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
472 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
473 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
474 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
475 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
476 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
477 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
479 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
480 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
482 o Minor features (geoip data):
483 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
484 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
486 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
487 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
488 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
490 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
491 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
492 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
493 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
494 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
495 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
497 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
498 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
499 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
500 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
501 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
503 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
504 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
505 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
506 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
508 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
509 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
510 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
511 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
512 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
514 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
515 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
516 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
518 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
519 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
520 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
521 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
522 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
523 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
525 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
526 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
527 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
528 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
531 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
532 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
533 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
534 should upgrade to this version.
536 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
537 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
538 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
539 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
540 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
541 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
543 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
544 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
546 o Minor features (geoip data):
547 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
548 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
550 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
551 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
552 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
553 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
555 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
556 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
557 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
558 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
559 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
560 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
561 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
562 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
563 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
565 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
566 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
567 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
570 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
571 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series includes
572 several major bugfixes from previous series and one massive new feature:
575 Congestion control should improve traffic speed and stability on the network
576 once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more details about it in
577 proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
579 For a complete list of changes since 0.4.6.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
581 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
582 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
584 o Minor features (geoip data):
585 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
586 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
588 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
589 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down to
590 info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix on
594 Changes in version 0.4.7.6-rc - 2022-04-07
595 This is the first release candidate of the 0.4.7.x series. Only one minor
596 bugfix went in since the last alpha couple weeks ago. We strongly recommend
597 anyone running an alpha version to upgrade to this version. Unless major
598 problems are found, the next release will finally be the stable!
600 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
601 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 07, 2022.
603 o Minor features (geoip data):
604 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
605 retrieved on 2022/04/07.
607 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
608 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
609 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
612 Changes in version 0.4.7.5-alpha - 2022-03-25
613 This version contains, of what we hope, the final work for congestion
614 control paving the way to the stable version. We expect this to be the last
615 alpha version of the 0.4.7.x series. Mostly minor bugfixes except one major
616 bugfix that changes how Tor behaves with DNS timeouts for Exit relays. As
617 always with an alpha, we recommend all relay operators to upgrade from
618 previous alpha to this one.
620 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
621 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
622 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
623 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
625 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
626 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
627 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
628 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
629 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
630 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
632 o Minor features (control port):
633 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
634 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
636 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
637 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 25, 2022.
639 o Minor features (geoip data):
640 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
641 retrieved on 2022/03/25.
643 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
644 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
645 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
647 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
648 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
649 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
650 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
653 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
654 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
655 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
656 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
657 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
659 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
660 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
661 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
662 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
664 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
665 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
666 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
667 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
668 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
671 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25
672 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the
673 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes
674 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout
675 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay
676 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one.
678 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
679 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
680 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
681 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
683 o Major bugfixes (client):
684 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
685 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
686 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
687 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
688 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
689 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
691 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
692 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
693 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
694 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
696 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
697 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
700 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
701 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022.
703 o Minor features (geoip data):
704 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
705 retrieved on 2022/02/25.
707 o Minor bugfix (logging):
708 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
709 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
711 o Minor bugfix (relay):
712 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
713 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
716 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
717 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
718 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
719 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
722 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
723 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
724 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
726 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
727 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
728 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
731 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
732 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
733 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
734 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
737 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
738 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
739 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
741 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
742 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
744 o Minor features (geoip data):
745 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
746 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
748 o Minor bugfix (logging):
749 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
750 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
752 o Minor bugfix (relay):
753 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
754 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
757 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
758 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
759 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
762 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04
763 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the
764 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the
765 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented
766 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to
767 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't
768 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
770 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
771 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
772 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
775 o Minor features (compilation):
776 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
777 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
778 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
779 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
782 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
783 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
785 o Minor features (geoip data):
786 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
787 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
789 o Minor bugfix (logging):
790 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
791 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
793 o Minor bugfix (relay):
794 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
795 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
798 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
799 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
800 that does not support expanding statically initialized const
801 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
802 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
803 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
804 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
805 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
807 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
808 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
809 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
811 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
812 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
813 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
814 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
815 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
818 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15
819 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including
820 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running
821 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version.
823 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
824 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
825 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
826 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
827 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
828 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
829 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
830 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
833 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
834 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
835 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
836 and not the DNS server itself.
837 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
838 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
839 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
840 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
841 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
842 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
843 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
845 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
846 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
847 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
850 o Minor features (compilation):
851 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
852 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
853 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
854 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
857 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
858 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
860 o Minor features (geoip data):
861 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
862 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
864 o Minor features (portability):
865 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
866 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
869 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
870 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
871 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
872 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
874 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
875 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
876 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
877 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
878 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
879 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
880 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
881 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
883 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
884 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
885 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
886 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
887 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
889 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
890 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
891 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
892 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
893 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
894 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
896 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
897 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
898 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
899 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
900 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
901 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
903 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
904 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
905 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
906 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
907 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
908 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
910 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
911 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
912 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
913 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
914 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
916 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
917 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
918 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
919 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
920 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
922 o Documentation (man, relay):
923 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
924 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
927 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
928 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
929 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
930 See below for more details.
932 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
933 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
934 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
935 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
936 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
938 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
939 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
940 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
943 o Minor features (compilation):
944 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
945 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
946 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
947 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
950 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
951 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
953 o Minor features (geoip data):
954 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
955 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
957 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
958 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
959 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
960 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
961 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
963 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
964 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
965 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
966 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
967 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
969 o Documentation (man, relay):
970 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
971 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
974 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26
975 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major
976 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and
977 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays
978 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This
979 release also fixes numerous bugs.
981 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs
982 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its
983 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more
984 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for
985 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used
986 without a custom patch.
988 o Major features (congestion control):
989 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
990 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
992 o Major features (directory authority):
993 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
994 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
995 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
996 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
997 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
998 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
999 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
1000 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
1001 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
1003 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
1004 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
1005 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
1006 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
1007 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1009 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1010 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1011 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1012 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1013 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1014 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1015 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1017 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1018 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1019 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1021 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1022 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1023 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1024 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1025 Closes ticket 40476.
1026 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1027 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1029 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1030 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1033 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1034 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1035 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1036 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1037 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1038 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1039 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1041 o Minor features (testing):
1042 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1043 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1046 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1047 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1048 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1050 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1051 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1052 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1053 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1056 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1057 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1058 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1059 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1060 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1061 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1062 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1063 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1065 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1066 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1067 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1068 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1070 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1071 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1072 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1073 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1075 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1076 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1077 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1079 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1080 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1081 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1082 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1084 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1085 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1086 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1087 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1088 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1089 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1090 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1091 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1092 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1094 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1095 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1096 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1097 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1098 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1100 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1101 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1102 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1103 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1104 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1106 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1107 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1108 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1109 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1110 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1113 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1116 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1117 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1118 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1120 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1121 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1122 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1126 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1127 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1128 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1131 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1132 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1133 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1134 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1135 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1136 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1137 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1139 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1140 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1143 o Minor features (testing):
1144 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1145 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1146 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1147 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1148 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1149 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1150 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1151 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1152 fix for ticket 40337.
1153 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1154 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1155 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1157 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1158 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1159 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1160 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1161 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1162 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1163 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1164 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1166 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1167 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1168 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1170 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1171 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1172 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1173 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1174 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1177 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1178 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1179 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1180 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1181 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1182 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1185 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1186 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1187 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1188 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1189 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1190 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1191 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1194 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1195 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1196 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1197 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1198 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1200 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1201 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1202 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1203 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1205 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1206 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1207 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1208 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1210 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1211 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1214 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1215 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1216 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1217 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1218 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1220 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1221 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1222 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1223 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1224 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1225 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1226 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1227 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1228 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1229 fix for ticket 40337.
1230 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1231 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1232 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1234 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1235 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1236 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1238 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1239 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1240 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1241 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1242 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1243 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1245 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1246 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1247 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1248 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1249 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1252 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1253 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1254 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1255 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1256 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1258 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1259 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1260 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1261 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1262 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1263 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1266 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1267 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1268 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1269 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1270 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1271 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1272 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1275 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1276 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1277 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1278 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1279 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1281 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1282 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1283 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1284 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1286 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1287 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1288 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1289 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1291 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1292 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1295 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1296 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1297 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1298 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1299 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1303 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17
1304 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One
1305 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate
1306 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes
1309 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
1310 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
1311 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
1312 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
1313 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
1314 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
1315 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
1316 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
1317 40363; implements proposal 333.
1319 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1320 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1321 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1322 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1324 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1325 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1326 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1327 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1329 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1330 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1331 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1332 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1333 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1334 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1335 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1336 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1337 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1338 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1339 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1340 fix for ticket 40337.
1341 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1342 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1343 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1345 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1346 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1347 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1348 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1350 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1351 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1352 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1353 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1354 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1357 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1358 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1359 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1360 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1361 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1363 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1364 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1365 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1366 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1368 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1369 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1370 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1371 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1373 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1374 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1375 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1376 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1377 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1378 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1380 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1381 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1382 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1383 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1385 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1386 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1387 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1390 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1391 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1393 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1394 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1397 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1398 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1399 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1400 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1401 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1403 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1404 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1405 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1406 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1407 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1408 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1409 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1410 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1412 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1413 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1415 o Minor features (geoip data):
1416 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1417 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1419 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1420 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1421 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1424 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1425 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid
1426 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix
1429 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1430 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW
1431 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug
1432 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1434 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1435 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1436 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1437 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1438 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1439 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1440 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1443 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1444 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1445 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1446 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1447 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1449 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1450 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1451 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1452 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1453 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1454 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1455 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1456 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1458 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1459 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1461 o Minor features (geoip data):
1462 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1463 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1465 o Minor features (testing):
1466 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1467 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1470 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1471 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1472 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1475 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1476 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1477 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1479 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1480 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1481 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1482 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1483 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1484 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1485 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1487 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6):
1488 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1489 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1492 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1493 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1494 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1495 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1496 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1498 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1499 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1500 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1501 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1502 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1503 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1504 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1505 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1507 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1508 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1510 o Minor features (geoip data):
1511 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1512 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1514 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1515 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1516 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1519 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1520 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1521 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1524 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1525 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1526 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1527 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1528 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1530 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1531 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1532 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1533 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1534 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1535 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1537 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1538 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1539 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1543 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1544 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1545 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1546 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1547 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1549 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1550 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1551 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1552 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1553 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1554 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1555 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1557 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1558 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1559 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1560 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1561 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1562 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1563 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1564 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1566 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1567 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1568 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1569 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1570 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1571 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1572 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1573 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1574 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1575 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1576 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1577 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1578 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1579 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1580 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1582 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1583 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1584 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1585 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1588 o Minor features (geoip data):
1589 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1590 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1592 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1593 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1594 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1595 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1596 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1597 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1600 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1601 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1602 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1606 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1607 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1608 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1609 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1610 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1612 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1613 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1614 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1616 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1617 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1618 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1619 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1620 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1621 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1622 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1624 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1625 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1626 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1627 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1628 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1629 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1630 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1631 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1633 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1634 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1635 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1636 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1637 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1638 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1639 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1640 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1641 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1642 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1643 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1644 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1645 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1646 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1647 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1649 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1650 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1651 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1652 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1655 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1656 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1657 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1659 o Minor features (geoip data):
1660 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1661 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1663 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1664 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1665 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1666 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1668 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1669 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1670 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1673 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1674 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1675 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1676 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1677 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1679 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1680 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1681 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1682 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1683 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1684 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1685 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1687 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1688 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1689 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1690 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1691 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1692 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1693 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1694 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1696 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1697 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1698 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1699 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1700 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1701 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1702 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1703 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1704 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1705 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1706 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1707 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1708 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1709 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1710 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1712 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1713 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1714 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1716 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1717 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1718 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1719 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1722 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1723 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1724 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1726 o Minor features (geoip data):
1727 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1728 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1731 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1732 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1733 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1734 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1735 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1738 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1739 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1740 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1741 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1743 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1744 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1746 o Major bugfixes (security):
1747 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1748 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1749 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1750 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1751 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1752 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1754 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1755 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1756 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1757 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1758 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1759 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1760 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1761 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1763 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1764 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1765 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1766 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1767 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1768 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1769 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1770 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1771 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1772 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1773 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1774 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1775 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1776 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1777 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1779 o Minor features (geoip data):
1780 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1781 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1783 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1784 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1785 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1786 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1787 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1790 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
1791 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
1792 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
1793 found, the next release will be stable.
1795 o Minor features (compatibility):
1796 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1797 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1798 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1801 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1802 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1803 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1804 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1805 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1807 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1808 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1809 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1810 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1811 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1812 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1815 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1816 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1817 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1821 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1822 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1823 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1826 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
1827 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
1828 from the 0.4.6.x series.
1830 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1831 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1832 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1833 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1834 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1836 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1837 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1838 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1840 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1841 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1842 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1844 o Minor features (geoip data):
1845 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1846 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1848 o Minor features (onion services):
1849 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
1850 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
1851 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
1853 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1854 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1855 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1856 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1858 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1859 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1860 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1861 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1863 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1864 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1865 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1866 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1868 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1869 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1870 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1872 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
1873 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1874 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1875 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1877 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1878 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1879 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1880 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1882 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1883 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1884 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1888 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
1889 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
1890 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
1891 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
1893 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
1894 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
1895 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
1896 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
1898 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
1899 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
1900 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
1901 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1903 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
1904 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1905 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1906 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1907 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1909 o Minor features (compilation):
1910 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1911 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1913 o Minor features (geoip data):
1914 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1915 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1917 o Minor features (onion services):
1918 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1919 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1921 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
1922 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1923 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1924 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1926 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1927 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1928 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1930 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1931 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1932 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1934 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
1935 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1936 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1937 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1940 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
1941 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
1942 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
1943 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
1946 o Minor features (client):
1947 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1948 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1949 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1950 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1952 o Minor features (command line):
1953 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1954 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1957 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1958 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1959 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1960 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1962 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
1963 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1964 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1966 o Minor features (geoip data):
1967 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1968 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
1970 o Minor features (logging):
1971 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1972 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1975 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
1976 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1977 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1978 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1980 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
1981 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1982 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1983 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1985 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1986 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1987 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1988 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1990 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1991 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
1992 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
1993 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
1996 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1997 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
1998 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2000 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2001 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2002 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2005 o Documentation (manual):
2006 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2008 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2009 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2010 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2011 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2014 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
2015 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
2016 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
2017 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
2018 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
2020 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
2021 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
2023 o Major features (control port, onion services):
2024 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
2025 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
2026 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
2029 o Major features (directory authority):
2030 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
2031 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
2032 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
2033 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2035 o Major features (metrics):
2036 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
2037 documents. This information is controlled with the
2038 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
2039 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
2040 328; closes ticket 40222.
2042 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
2043 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
2044 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
2046 o Major features (statistics):
2047 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
2048 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
2049 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
2051 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
2052 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
2053 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
2054 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
2055 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
2056 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
2057 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
2058 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
2059 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
2060 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
2061 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
2062 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
2063 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
2064 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
2065 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
2066 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
2067 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2068 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
2069 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
2070 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
2073 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
2074 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
2075 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
2076 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2078 o Minor features (bridge):
2079 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
2080 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
2081 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
2083 o Minor features (build system):
2084 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
2085 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
2086 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2088 o Minor features (command-line interface):
2089 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
2090 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
2091 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
2092 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
2093 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
2094 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
2095 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
2096 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
2097 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
2098 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2100 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
2101 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
2102 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2104 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2105 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
2106 control over whether the client can become dormant from
2107 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2109 o Minor features (logging):
2110 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
2111 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
2112 any). Closes ticket 40308.
2113 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
2114 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
2115 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2117 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2118 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
2119 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
2120 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
2121 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2123 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2124 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
2125 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
2127 o Minor features (tests, portability):
2128 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
2129 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
2132 o Minor features (vote document):
2133 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
2134 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
2135 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
2137 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2138 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
2139 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
2140 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2142 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2143 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
2144 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
2145 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
2148 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2149 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2150 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2151 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2153 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
2154 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
2155 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
2156 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
2157 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
2158 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2160 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2161 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
2162 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
2163 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
2164 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2166 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
2167 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
2168 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
2169 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
2170 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2172 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
2173 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
2174 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
2175 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2177 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2178 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2179 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
2180 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2182 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2183 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2184 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2185 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2188 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2189 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2190 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2191 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2192 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2193 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2194 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2197 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2198 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2199 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2201 o Removed features (relay):
2202 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2203 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2204 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2205 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2206 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2209 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2210 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2211 in earlier versions of Tor.
2213 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2214 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2215 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2216 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2217 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2218 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2219 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2220 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2221 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2224 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2225 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2228 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2229 compatibility issue.
2231 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2232 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2233 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2234 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2235 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2236 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2237 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2238 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2239 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2242 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2243 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2244 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2245 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2246 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2247 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2248 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2249 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2252 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2253 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2254 Closes ticket 40309.
2257 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2258 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2259 in earlier versions of Tor.
2261 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2262 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2263 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2264 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2265 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2266 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2267 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2268 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2269 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2272 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2273 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2276 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2277 compatibility issue.
2279 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2280 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2281 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2282 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2283 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2284 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2285 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2286 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2287 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2290 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2291 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2292 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2293 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2294 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2295 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2296 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2297 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2300 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2301 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2302 Closes ticket 40309.
2305 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2306 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2309 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2310 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2311 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2312 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2313 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2314 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2315 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2316 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2317 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2320 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2321 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2324 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2325 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2327 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2328 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2329 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2330 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2331 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2332 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2333 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2334 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2335 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2338 o Minor features (geoip data):
2339 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2340 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2341 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2342 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2343 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2344 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2345 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2348 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2349 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2350 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2351 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2352 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2354 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2355 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2356 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2358 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2359 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2360 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2361 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2362 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2364 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2365 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2366 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2368 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2369 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2370 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2372 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2373 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2374 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2376 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2377 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2378 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2379 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2380 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2381 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2382 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2383 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2385 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2386 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2387 Closes ticket 40309.
2390 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2391 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2392 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2393 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2394 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2395 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2396 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2397 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2398 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2399 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2401 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2402 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2403 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2404 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2405 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2406 smaller features and bugfixes.
2408 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2409 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2411 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2412 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
2413 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
2414 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2416 o Minor features (protocol versions):
2417 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
2418 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
2419 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
2420 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
2421 Closes ticket 40221.
2423 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2424 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2425 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2426 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2427 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2428 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2430 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2431 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
2432 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
2434 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2435 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
2436 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
2437 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
2438 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2440 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
2441 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
2442 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
2443 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
2444 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
2448 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2449 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2450 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2451 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2452 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2454 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2455 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2456 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2457 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2458 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2461 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2462 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2463 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2464 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2467 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2468 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2469 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2470 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2472 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2473 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2474 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2475 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2476 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2478 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2479 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2480 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2481 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2482 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2483 weasel for diagnosing this.
2485 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2486 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2487 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2488 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2489 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2490 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2491 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2493 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2494 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2495 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2496 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2498 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2499 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2500 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2501 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2503 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2504 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2505 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2506 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2507 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2508 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2509 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2511 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2512 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2515 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2516 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2517 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2518 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2519 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2521 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2522 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2524 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2525 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2526 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2527 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2528 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2531 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2532 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2533 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2534 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2535 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2537 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2538 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2539 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2540 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2543 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2544 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2545 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2546 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2548 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2549 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2550 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2551 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2552 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2554 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2555 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2556 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2557 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2558 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2559 weasel for diagnosing this.
2561 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2562 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2563 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2564 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2565 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2566 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2567 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2569 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2570 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2571 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2573 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2574 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2575 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2576 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2578 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2579 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2580 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2581 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2583 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2584 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2585 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2586 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2587 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2588 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2589 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2591 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2592 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2595 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2596 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2597 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2598 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2599 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2601 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2602 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2603 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2604 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2605 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2608 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2609 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2610 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2611 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2612 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2614 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2615 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2616 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2617 should help mitigate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2620 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2621 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2622 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2623 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2625 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2626 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2627 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2628 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2629 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2631 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2632 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2633 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2634 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2635 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2636 weasel for diagnosing this.
2638 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2639 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2640 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2641 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2642 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2643 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2644 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2646 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2647 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2648 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2650 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2651 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2652 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2653 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2655 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2656 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2657 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2658 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2660 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2661 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2662 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2663 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2665 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2666 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2669 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
2670 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
2671 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
2672 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
2673 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
2675 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
2676 release, though of course that could change.
2678 o Major feature (exit):
2679 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2680 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2681 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2684 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
2685 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
2686 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
2690 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
2691 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
2692 several bugs present in previous releases.
2694 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
2695 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
2697 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
2698 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
2699 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2701 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2702 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2703 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2704 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2705 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2707 o Minor feature (build system):
2708 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2709 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2710 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2712 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2713 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2714 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2715 Closes ticket 40245.
2716 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
2717 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
2720 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2721 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
2722 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
2723 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
2724 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2725 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2726 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2728 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
2729 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
2730 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
2731 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
2732 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
2735 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2736 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2737 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2738 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2740 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2741 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
2742 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
2743 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2746 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
2747 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2748 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
2749 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
2751 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
2752 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
2753 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
2754 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
2756 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
2757 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2758 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2759 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2760 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2763 o Minor features (crypto):
2764 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2765 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2766 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2767 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2768 weasel for diagnosing this.
2770 o Minor features (documentation):
2771 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2772 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2773 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2775 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2776 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2777 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2778 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2779 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2780 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2783 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
2784 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
2785 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
2786 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
2787 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2789 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2790 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
2791 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
2793 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
2794 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
2795 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2797 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
2798 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
2799 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
2800 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
2801 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
2804 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
2805 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2806 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2807 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2810 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
2811 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
2812 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
2813 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
2814 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
2815 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
2818 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2819 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2820 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2821 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2822 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2823 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2824 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2826 o Minor features (compilation):
2827 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2828 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2829 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2830 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2832 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2833 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2834 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2835 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2836 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2838 o Minor features (safety):
2839 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2840 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2843 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2844 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2845 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2846 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2847 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2848 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2850 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2851 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
2852 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
2853 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2854 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
2855 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2856 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
2857 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
2858 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2860 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2861 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2862 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2863 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2864 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2865 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2867 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
2868 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
2869 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
2870 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2871 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
2872 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
2873 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2875 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2876 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2877 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2878 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2880 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2881 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2882 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2884 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2885 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2886 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2888 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
2889 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
2890 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2891 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
2892 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
2893 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
2894 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2896 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2897 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2898 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2899 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2900 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
2901 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
2902 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
2904 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2905 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2906 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2908 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2909 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2911 o Removed features (controller):
2912 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2913 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2916 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
2917 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
2918 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2919 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
2920 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
2921 intended for a different relay.
2923 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2924 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2925 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2926 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2927 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2928 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2929 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2931 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2932 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2933 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2934 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2935 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2936 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2937 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2938 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2939 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2940 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2941 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2943 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2944 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2945 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2946 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2947 closes ticket 40133.
2949 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2950 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2951 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2953 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2954 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2955 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2957 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2958 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2959 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2960 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2961 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2962 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2964 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2965 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2966 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2968 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2969 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2970 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2973 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2974 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2975 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2976 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2979 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
2980 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2981 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2982 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2983 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2985 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
2986 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
2987 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
2990 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2991 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2992 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2993 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2995 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2996 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2997 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2998 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2999 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3000 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3001 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3003 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3004 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3005 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3006 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3007 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3010 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3011 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3012 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3013 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3014 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3015 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3017 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3018 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3019 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3020 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3021 closes ticket 40133.
3023 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3024 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3025 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3026 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3028 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3029 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3030 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3032 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3033 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3034 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3036 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3037 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3038 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3039 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3040 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3042 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3043 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3044 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3046 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3047 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3048 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3049 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3050 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3051 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3052 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3054 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3055 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3056 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3059 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3060 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3061 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3062 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3063 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3064 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3067 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3068 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3069 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3070 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3072 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3073 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3074 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3075 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3077 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3078 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3079 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3081 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3082 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3085 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3086 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3087 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3088 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3089 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3090 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3091 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3094 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3095 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3096 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3097 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3098 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3100 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3101 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3102 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3103 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3105 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3106 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3107 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3108 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3109 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3110 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3111 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3113 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3114 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3115 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3116 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3117 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3120 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3121 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3122 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3123 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3124 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3125 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3127 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3128 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3129 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3130 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3132 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3133 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3134 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3135 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3136 closes ticket 40133.
3138 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3139 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3140 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3141 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3143 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3144 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3145 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3147 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3148 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3149 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3151 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3152 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3153 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3154 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3155 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3157 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3158 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3159 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3161 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3162 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3163 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3164 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3165 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3166 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3167 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3169 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3170 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3171 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3174 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3175 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3176 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3177 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3178 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3179 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3182 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3183 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3184 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3185 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3187 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3188 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3189 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3190 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3192 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3193 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3194 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3196 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3197 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3201 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
3202 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
3203 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
3204 metrics and tracing.
3206 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3207 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3208 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
3209 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
3210 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
3211 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
3212 series soon, after it has had some testing.
3214 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
3216 o Major features (build):
3217 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
3218 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
3219 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
3220 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
3221 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
3223 o Major features (metrics):
3224 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
3225 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
3226 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
3227 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
3228 information and security considerations.
3229 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
3230 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
3231 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
3232 Closes ticket 33233.
3233 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
3234 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
3235 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
3236 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
3237 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
3238 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
3239 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
3240 use. Closes ticket 33220.
3241 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
3242 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
3243 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
3244 Closes ticket 34067.
3246 o Major features (tracing):
3247 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
3248 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
3249 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
3250 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
3251 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
3253 o Major bugfixes (security):
3254 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3255 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3256 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3257 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3258 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3259 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3261 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
3262 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
3263 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
3264 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
3265 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
3266 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
3268 o Minor features (address discovery):
3269 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
3270 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
3271 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
3272 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
3274 o Minor features (admin tools):
3275 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
3276 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
3277 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
3280 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3281 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
3282 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
3283 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
3284 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
3285 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
3287 o Minor features (build):
3288 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
3289 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
3290 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
3291 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
3292 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
3294 o Minor features (configuration):
3295 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
3296 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3297 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
3298 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
3299 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
3300 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3302 o Minor features (control port):
3303 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
3304 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
3305 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
3306 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
3308 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
3309 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
3310 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
3313 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
3314 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
3315 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
3316 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
3317 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
3318 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
3319 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3321 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3322 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3323 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3324 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3325 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3326 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3327 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3328 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
3329 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
3331 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3332 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
3333 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3334 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3335 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3336 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3337 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3338 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
3339 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
3340 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
3341 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
3342 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
3343 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
3344 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
3345 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
3347 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
3348 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
3349 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
3350 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
3352 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
3353 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
3354 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
3355 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3357 o Minor features (heartbeat):
3358 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
3359 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
3361 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
3362 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
3363 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3365 o Minor features (logging):
3366 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
3367 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
3368 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
3369 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
3370 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
3371 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
3373 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
3374 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
3375 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
3376 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
3378 o Minor features (onion services):
3379 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
3380 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
3381 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3383 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
3384 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
3385 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
3386 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
3387 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
3388 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
3390 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
3391 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
3392 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
3393 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
3394 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
3395 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
3396 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
3398 o Minor features (relay):
3399 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
3400 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
3401 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
3402 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
3403 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
3404 Closes ticket 34137.
3406 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
3407 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
3408 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
3411 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
3412 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
3413 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
3414 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
3415 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
3416 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
3417 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
3418 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
3419 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
3421 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
3422 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
3424 o Minor features (specification update):
3425 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
3426 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
3427 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
3429 o Minor features (state management):
3430 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
3431 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
3432 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
3433 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
3434 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
3436 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
3437 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
3438 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
3439 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
3440 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
3442 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
3443 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3444 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3445 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3446 closes ticket 40133.
3447 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
3448 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
3450 o Minor features (testing configuration):
3451 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
3452 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
3453 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
3454 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
3456 o Minor features (testing):
3457 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
3458 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3460 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
3461 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3462 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3464 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3465 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3466 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3468 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3469 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
3470 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
3471 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
3473 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
3474 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
3475 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3476 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
3477 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
3478 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
3479 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
3480 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
3481 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3483 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
3484 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3485 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3486 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3487 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3488 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3489 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3491 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3492 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3493 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3494 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3495 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3496 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3498 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3499 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
3500 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
3501 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
3504 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
3505 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
3506 when a stream is attached with the purpose
3507 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
3508 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3510 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3511 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3512 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3513 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
3514 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
3515 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
3516 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
3517 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
3520 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
3521 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3522 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3525 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
3526 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
3527 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
3528 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3529 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
3530 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
3531 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3533 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
3534 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
3535 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
3536 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
3537 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
3538 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3540 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
3541 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
3542 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3544 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
3545 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
3546 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3547 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
3548 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
3549 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
3550 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
3551 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3553 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
3554 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3555 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3556 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3558 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3559 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
3560 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
3561 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
3562 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
3563 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
3564 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
3565 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
3566 Closes ticket 34200.
3567 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
3568 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
3569 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
3570 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
3571 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
3572 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
3573 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
3575 - Split implementation of several command line options from
3576 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
3577 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
3578 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
3579 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
3580 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
3583 o Deprecated features:
3584 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
3585 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
3586 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
3589 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
3590 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
3593 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
3594 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
3595 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
3596 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
3598 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
3599 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
3601 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
3602 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
3603 directory. Closes part of 40139.
3604 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
3605 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
3609 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
3610 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3612 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
3613 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
3614 31699; Patch by @bduszel
3616 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
3617 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
3618 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
3619 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
3620 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
3622 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3623 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
3624 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
3625 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
3626 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
3628 o Documentation (manual page):
3629 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
3630 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
3631 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
3632 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
3634 o Documentation (tracing):
3635 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
3636 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
3639 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3640 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3641 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3642 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3643 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3644 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3645 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3647 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3648 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3649 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3650 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3651 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3653 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3654 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3655 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3657 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3658 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3660 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3661 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3662 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3663 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3664 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3665 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3667 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3668 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3669 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3670 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3671 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3673 o Minor features (control port):
3674 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3675 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3676 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3678 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3679 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3680 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3681 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3682 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3683 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3685 o Minor features (tests):
3686 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3687 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3688 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3690 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
3691 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
3692 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3694 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3695 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3696 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3697 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3700 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
3701 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
3702 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
3705 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3706 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3707 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3708 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3710 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3711 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3712 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3713 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3714 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3717 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3718 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3719 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3720 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3721 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3723 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3724 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3725 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3726 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3729 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3730 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3731 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3732 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3733 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3734 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3738 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3739 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3740 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3743 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3744 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3745 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3746 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3747 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3748 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3751 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3752 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3753 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3755 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3756 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3757 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3758 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3759 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3760 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3761 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3764 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3765 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3766 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3767 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3770 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3771 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3772 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3773 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3774 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3775 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3777 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3778 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3779 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3780 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3781 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3782 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3784 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3785 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3786 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3788 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3789 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3790 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3791 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3794 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3795 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3796 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3797 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3800 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3801 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3802 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3803 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3804 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3806 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3807 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3808 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3810 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3811 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3812 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3813 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3814 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3817 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3818 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3819 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3820 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3821 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3822 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3824 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3825 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3826 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3827 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3829 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3830 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3831 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3832 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3835 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3836 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3837 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3838 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3839 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3840 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3841 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3842 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3846 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3847 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3848 several that affect usability and portability.
3850 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3851 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3852 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3853 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3854 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3855 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3856 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3859 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3860 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3861 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3862 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3865 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3866 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3867 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3868 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3869 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3870 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3872 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3873 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3874 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3875 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3876 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3878 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3879 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3880 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3881 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3883 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3884 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3885 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3886 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3887 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3888 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3890 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3891 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3892 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3894 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3895 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3896 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3897 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3900 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3901 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3902 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3903 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3906 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3907 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3908 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3909 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3910 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3911 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3914 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3915 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3916 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3918 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3919 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3920 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3921 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3923 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3924 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3925 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3926 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3927 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3930 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3931 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3932 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3933 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3934 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3935 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3937 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
3938 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3939 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3940 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3941 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3943 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3944 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3945 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3946 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3948 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3949 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3950 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3951 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3953 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3954 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3955 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3956 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3959 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3960 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3961 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3962 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3963 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3964 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3965 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3966 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3970 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
3971 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
3972 some affecting usability.
3974 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3975 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3976 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3977 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3978 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3979 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3980 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3983 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3984 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3985 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3986 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3989 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3990 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3991 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3993 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3994 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3995 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3996 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3999 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4000 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4001 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4003 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4004 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4005 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4006 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4008 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4009 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4010 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4011 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4013 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4014 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4015 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4017 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4018 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4019 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4020 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4021 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4023 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4024 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4025 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4027 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4028 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4029 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4030 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4032 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4033 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4037 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
4038 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
4039 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
4040 compatibility, and portability issues.
4042 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4043 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4044 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4045 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4046 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4047 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4048 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4051 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
4052 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4053 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4054 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4057 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4058 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
4059 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
4060 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
4061 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
4064 o Minor features (directory authority):
4065 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
4066 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
4067 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
4068 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
4069 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
4071 o Minor features (entry guards):
4072 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
4073 Closes ticket 40001.
4075 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
4076 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
4077 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
4078 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
4079 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
4080 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
4081 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
4083 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
4084 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4085 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4087 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
4088 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
4089 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4091 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
4092 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
4093 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
4096 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
4097 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4098 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4100 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
4101 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
4102 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
4103 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4105 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4106 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4107 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4108 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4110 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4111 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
4112 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
4115 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
4116 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
4119 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
4120 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
4121 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
4122 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
4123 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
4124 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
4125 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
4126 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4129 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
4130 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
4131 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
4132 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
4133 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
4134 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
4136 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
4138 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
4139 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
4140 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
4141 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
4142 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
4143 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
4144 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
4145 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
4146 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
4147 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
4149 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
4150 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
4151 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
4152 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
4153 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
4154 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
4155 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
4157 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
4159 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
4160 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
4161 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
4162 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
4164 o Major features (v3 onion services):
4165 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
4166 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
4167 Closes ticket 32709.
4169 o Minor feature (developer tools):
4170 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
4171 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
4173 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
4174 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
4175 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
4176 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
4179 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
4180 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
4181 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4183 o Minor feature (python scripts):
4184 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
4185 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
4186 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
4187 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
4189 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
4190 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
4191 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
4192 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
4193 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
4195 o Minor features (code safety):
4196 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
4197 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
4198 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
4199 Resolves issue 33788.
4201 o Minor features (compilation size):
4202 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
4203 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
4205 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4206 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
4207 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
4208 Resolves ticket 32143.
4210 o Minor features (control port):
4211 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
4212 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
4213 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
4214 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4216 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4217 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
4218 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
4219 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
4220 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
4221 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
4223 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
4224 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
4225 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
4226 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
4228 o Minor features (directory):
4229 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
4230 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
4231 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
4234 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
4235 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
4236 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
4238 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
4239 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
4240 Closes ticket 33901.
4242 o Minor features (logging):
4243 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
4244 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
4246 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
4247 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
4248 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
4249 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
4250 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
4251 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
4252 up from ticket 33316.
4254 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
4255 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
4256 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
4257 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4259 o Minor features (windows):
4260 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
4261 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
4263 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
4264 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4265 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4266 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4267 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4269 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
4270 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
4271 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
4272 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
4274 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
4275 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4276 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4277 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4280 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4281 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
4282 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
4283 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
4284 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
4285 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4287 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4288 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
4289 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
4290 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4292 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
4293 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
4294 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
4295 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
4296 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4298 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
4299 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
4300 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4302 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
4303 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
4304 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
4305 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
4306 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
4307 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4308 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
4309 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
4310 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
4311 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4313 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
4314 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4315 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4316 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4318 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
4319 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
4320 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
4321 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
4322 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4324 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
4325 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
4326 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4328 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
4329 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
4330 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4332 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
4333 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4334 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4336 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4337 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
4338 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4341 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
4342 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
4343 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4345 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4346 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4347 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4349 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
4350 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
4351 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
4354 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4355 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4356 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4357 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4359 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4360 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
4361 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
4362 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
4363 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4364 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
4365 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
4366 isolated in subsystems of their own.
4367 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
4368 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
4369 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
4370 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
4372 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
4373 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
4374 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
4375 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
4379 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
4380 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
4381 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4382 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4386 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
4387 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
4388 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
4389 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
4390 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4391 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
4392 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
4395 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
4396 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
4397 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
4398 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
4399 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
4400 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4401 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
4402 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
4404 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
4405 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4407 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4408 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4409 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4410 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
4411 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
4412 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
4413 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
4414 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
4415 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
4416 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
4417 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4418 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4420 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
4421 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
4422 code. Closes ticket 33014.
4424 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
4425 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
4426 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
4428 o Documentation (manual page):
4429 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
4430 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4431 Google Season of Docs.
4432 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
4433 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
4434 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
4435 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4436 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
4437 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
4438 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
4439 Closes ticket 33778.
4442 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4443 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4444 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4445 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4446 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4447 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4450 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4451 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4452 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4453 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4454 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4456 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4457 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4458 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4461 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4462 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4464 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4465 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4466 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4467 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4468 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4469 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4472 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4473 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4474 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4475 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
4476 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
4477 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
4481 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
4482 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
4483 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
4484 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
4486 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4487 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4488 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4489 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4490 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4491 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4493 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4494 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4495 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4496 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4497 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4499 o Minor features (testing):
4500 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4501 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4502 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4503 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4504 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4506 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
4507 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
4508 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
4509 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4511 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
4512 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
4513 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
4514 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4516 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4517 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
4518 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
4519 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
4521 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
4522 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
4523 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
4524 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
4525 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4526 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
4527 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
4528 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
4529 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
4530 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
4531 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4533 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4534 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4535 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4536 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4537 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4538 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4540 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4541 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4542 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4543 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4544 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4545 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4548 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4549 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4550 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4551 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4552 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4553 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
4554 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
4555 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
4557 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4558 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
4559 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
4562 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4563 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4564 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4565 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4566 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4570 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4571 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4572 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4573 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4574 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4575 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4576 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4580 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
4581 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
4582 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
4583 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4584 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4585 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4586 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4587 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4588 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4589 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4590 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4593 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4594 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4595 as soon as packages are available.
4597 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4598 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4599 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4600 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4601 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4602 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4603 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4604 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4605 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4607 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4608 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4609 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4610 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4611 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4613 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4614 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4615 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4616 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4617 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4619 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4620 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4621 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4622 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4624 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4625 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4626 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4627 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4629 o Minor features (usability):
4630 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4631 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4632 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4634 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4635 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4636 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4637 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4640 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
4641 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
4642 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
4643 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
4644 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4646 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4647 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4650 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4651 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4652 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4653 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4656 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4657 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4658 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4659 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4662 o Documentation (manpage):
4663 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4664 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4665 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4666 Google Season of Docs.
4667 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4668 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4670 o Testing (Travis CI):
4671 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4672 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4673 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4675 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4676 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4677 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4678 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4679 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4682 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4683 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4684 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4685 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4686 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4687 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4688 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4689 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4690 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4691 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4692 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4693 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4695 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4696 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4697 as soon as packages are available.
4699 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4700 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4701 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4702 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4703 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4704 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4705 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4706 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4707 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4709 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4710 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4711 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4712 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4713 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4715 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4716 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4717 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4718 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4719 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4721 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4722 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4723 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4724 Closes ticket 33075.
4726 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4727 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4728 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4730 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4731 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4732 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4733 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4734 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4737 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4738 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4739 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4740 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4743 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4744 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4745 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4746 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4748 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4749 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4750 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4751 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4753 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4754 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4755 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4756 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4757 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4760 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4761 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4762 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4763 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4764 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4765 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4766 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4767 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4768 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4769 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4770 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4771 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4773 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4774 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4775 as soon as packages are available.
4777 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4778 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4779 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4780 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4781 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4782 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4783 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4784 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4785 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4787 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4788 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4789 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4790 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4791 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4793 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4794 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4795 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4797 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4798 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4799 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4800 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4801 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4804 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4805 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4806 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4807 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4810 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4811 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4812 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4813 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4815 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4816 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4817 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4818 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4820 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4821 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4822 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4823 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4824 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4827 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4828 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4829 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4830 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4831 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4832 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4833 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4834 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4835 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4836 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4837 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4840 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4841 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4842 as soon as packages are available.
4844 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4845 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4846 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4847 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4848 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4849 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4850 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4851 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4852 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4854 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4855 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4856 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4857 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4858 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4859 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4860 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4861 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4864 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4865 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4866 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4867 Closes ticket 33075.
4869 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4870 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4871 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4873 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4874 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4875 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4876 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4877 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4879 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4880 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4881 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4882 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4883 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4886 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4887 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4888 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4889 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4892 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4893 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4894 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4895 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4897 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4898 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4899 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4900 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4901 Closes ticket 32629.
4902 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4903 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4904 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4906 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4907 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4909 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4910 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4911 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4912 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4914 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4915 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4916 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4917 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4920 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
4921 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
4922 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
4923 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
4926 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
4927 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
4928 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
4929 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4931 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4932 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4933 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4934 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4936 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4937 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4938 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4939 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4940 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4941 Closes ticket 33075.
4943 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4944 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
4945 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4947 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4948 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
4949 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4950 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
4952 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4953 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4954 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4956 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4957 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4958 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4959 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4960 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4962 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4963 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4964 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4965 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4967 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
4968 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4969 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4970 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4972 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
4973 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
4974 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
4975 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
4978 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4979 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4980 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4981 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4983 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4984 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4985 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4986 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4988 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4989 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4990 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4991 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4992 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4994 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4995 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4996 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4998 o Documentation (manpage):
4999 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
5000 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
5001 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5004 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5005 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5006 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5007 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5008 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5009 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5011 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5012 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5013 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5014 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5015 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5016 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5017 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5018 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5020 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5021 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5022 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5024 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5025 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5026 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5027 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5029 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5030 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5031 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5032 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5034 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5035 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5036 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5037 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5038 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5039 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5042 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5043 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5044 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5046 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5047 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5048 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5049 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5050 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5051 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5052 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5053 Closes ticket 32629.
5055 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5056 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5059 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5060 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5061 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5062 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5063 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5064 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5066 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5067 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5068 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5069 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5070 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5071 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5072 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5073 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5075 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5076 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5077 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5079 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5080 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5081 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5082 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5083 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5085 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5086 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5087 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5089 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5090 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5091 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5092 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5093 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5094 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5095 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5096 Closes ticket 32629.
5098 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5099 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5102 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
5103 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
5104 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
5105 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
5106 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
5107 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
5108 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
5109 write better code in the future.
5111 o New system requirements:
5112 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
5113 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
5114 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
5116 o Major features (build system):
5117 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
5118 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
5119 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
5120 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
5121 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
5123 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
5124 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
5125 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
5126 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
5127 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5129 o Major features (onion service, controller):
5130 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
5131 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
5132 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
5133 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
5135 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
5136 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
5137 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
5138 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
5140 o Major features (proxy):
5141 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
5142 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
5143 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
5144 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
5145 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
5146 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5148 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5149 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5150 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5151 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5152 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5153 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5154 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5155 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5157 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5158 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5159 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5161 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5162 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
5163 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
5164 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5166 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
5167 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
5168 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
5169 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
5170 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
5171 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5173 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
5174 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
5175 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
5177 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
5178 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
5179 message. Closes ticket 31371.
5181 o Minor features (configuration validation):
5182 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
5183 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
5184 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
5185 Closes ticket 31241.
5187 o Minor features (configuration):
5188 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
5189 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
5191 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
5192 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
5193 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
5194 Implements ticket 32404.
5196 o Minor features (controller):
5197 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
5198 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
5199 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
5201 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
5202 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
5203 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
5204 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
5206 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5207 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
5208 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
5211 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5212 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
5213 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
5214 Closes ticket 32772.
5216 o Minor features (developer tools):
5217 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
5218 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
5219 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
5220 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
5221 target. Closes ticket 31919.
5222 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
5223 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
5224 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
5226 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
5227 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
5228 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
5229 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
5231 o Minor features (Doxygen):
5232 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
5233 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
5234 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
5236 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
5237 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
5238 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
5239 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
5240 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
5241 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
5242 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
5243 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
5245 o Minor features (git scripts):
5246 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
5247 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
5248 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
5249 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
5250 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
5251 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
5252 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
5253 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
5254 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
5255 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
5256 Closes ticket 32216.
5257 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
5258 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
5259 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
5260 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
5262 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
5263 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
5264 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
5265 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
5266 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
5267 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
5269 o Minor features (portability, android):
5270 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
5271 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
5272 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5274 o Minor features (relay modularity):
5275 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
5276 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
5277 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5278 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5279 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
5280 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
5281 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5283 o Minor features (relay):
5284 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
5285 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
5287 o Minor features (release tools):
5288 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
5289 Closes ticket 32704.
5291 o Minor features (testing):
5292 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
5293 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
5294 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
5295 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
5296 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
5297 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
5300 o Minor features (tests, Android):
5301 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
5302 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
5303 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5305 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
5306 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5307 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5309 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5310 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
5311 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5313 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
5314 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
5315 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
5316 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5318 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5319 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
5320 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5321 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
5322 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
5323 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
5324 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
5325 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
5326 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
5327 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
5328 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5329 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
5330 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
5331 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
5332 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5334 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5335 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
5336 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
5339 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
5340 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5341 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5342 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5344 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
5345 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
5346 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5348 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
5349 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
5350 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
5351 Closes ticket 32213.
5352 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5353 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
5354 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5356 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5357 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
5358 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
5359 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
5360 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
5363 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5364 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
5366 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
5367 Closes ticket 32216.
5369 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
5370 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
5371 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
5372 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
5375 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
5376 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5377 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5378 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5380 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5381 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
5382 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
5383 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
5384 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
5387 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
5388 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
5389 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
5390 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
5391 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
5392 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5394 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5395 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
5396 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
5397 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
5398 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5400 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
5401 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
5402 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5404 o Minor bugfixes (test):
5405 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
5406 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
5407 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
5410 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5411 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
5412 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5413 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5414 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5415 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5416 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5417 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5420 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5421 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
5422 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
5423 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
5424 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
5425 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5427 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
5428 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5429 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5431 o Deprecated features:
5432 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
5433 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
5434 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
5438 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
5439 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
5440 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
5441 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
5442 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
5443 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
5444 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
5445 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
5447 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
5448 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
5451 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
5452 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
5453 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
5454 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
5455 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
5456 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
5458 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
5459 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
5460 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
5461 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
5462 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
5465 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
5466 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
5468 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
5469 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
5470 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
5471 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
5472 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5473 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5474 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5475 Closes ticket 32629.
5476 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
5478 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5479 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5480 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5482 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
5483 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
5484 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
5486 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
5487 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
5488 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
5489 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
5490 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
5491 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
5492 Solves part of ticket 32339.
5493 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
5494 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
5495 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
5496 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
5497 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
5498 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
5499 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
5500 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
5501 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
5502 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
5504 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
5505 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
5507 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
5508 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
5509 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
5511 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
5512 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
5513 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
5514 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
5515 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
5516 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
5518 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
5519 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
5520 Closes ticket 32163.
5521 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
5523 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
5525 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5526 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
5527 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
5528 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
5529 Closes ticket 32304.
5530 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
5531 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
5532 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
5533 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
5534 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
5537 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
5538 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5540 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5543 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
5544 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
5545 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
5546 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5547 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
5548 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
5549 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
5550 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5552 o Documentation (manpage):
5553 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5555 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5557 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
5558 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
5559 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
5561 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
5562 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
5563 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5565 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
5566 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
5569 o Testing (continuous integration):
5570 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5573 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5574 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5575 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5576 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5577 bugs present in previous series.
5579 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5580 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5581 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5582 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5584 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5585 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5586 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5587 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5589 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5590 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5592 o Minor features (geoip):
5593 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5594 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5597 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5598 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5599 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5600 Closes ticket 32500.
5603 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5604 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5605 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5606 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5608 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5609 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5610 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5611 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5613 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5614 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5615 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5616 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5618 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5619 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5620 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5621 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5622 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5623 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5624 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5625 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5627 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5628 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5629 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5630 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5631 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5633 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5634 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5635 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5636 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5637 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5640 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5641 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5642 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5643 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5645 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5646 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5647 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5649 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5650 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5651 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5653 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5654 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5655 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5656 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5657 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5658 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5660 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5661 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5662 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5663 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5665 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5666 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5667 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5668 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5669 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5670 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5671 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5672 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5673 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5674 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5677 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5678 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5679 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5680 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5681 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5682 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5683 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5684 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5685 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5687 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5688 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5689 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5690 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5692 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5693 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5694 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5695 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5696 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5699 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5700 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5701 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5703 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5704 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5705 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5707 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5708 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5709 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5711 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5712 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5713 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5714 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5716 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5717 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5718 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5719 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5720 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5722 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5723 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5724 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5726 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5727 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5728 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5731 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5732 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5733 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5735 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5736 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5737 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5738 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5740 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5741 Closes ticket 31859.
5742 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5743 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5745 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5746 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5747 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5748 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5749 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5750 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5751 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5752 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5753 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5754 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5756 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5757 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5758 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5759 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5760 Closes ticket 32500.
5763 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5764 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5765 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5766 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5767 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5769 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5770 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5771 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5772 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5774 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5775 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5778 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5779 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5780 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5781 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5782 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5783 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5784 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5785 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5786 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5787 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5788 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5790 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5791 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5792 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5793 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5794 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5795 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5797 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5798 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5799 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5800 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5801 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5804 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5805 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5806 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5807 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5808 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5810 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5811 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5812 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5813 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5816 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5817 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5818 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5819 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5820 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5821 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5822 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5823 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5825 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5826 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5827 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5828 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5829 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5831 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5832 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5833 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5834 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5835 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5838 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5839 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5840 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5842 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5843 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5844 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5847 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5848 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5849 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5851 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5852 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5853 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5854 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5856 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5857 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5858 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5859 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5860 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5862 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5863 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5864 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5866 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5867 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5868 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5871 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5872 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5873 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5875 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5876 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5877 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5879 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5880 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5881 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5883 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5884 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5885 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5888 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5889 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5890 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5891 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5892 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5893 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5895 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5896 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5897 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5898 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5899 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5901 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5902 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5903 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5906 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5907 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5908 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5910 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5911 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5912 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5913 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5915 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5916 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5917 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5918 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5920 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5921 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5922 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5923 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5925 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5926 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5927 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5928 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5930 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5931 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5932 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5933 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5934 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5935 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5936 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5938 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5939 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5940 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5941 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5943 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5944 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5945 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5946 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5948 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5949 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5950 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5953 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5954 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5955 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5956 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5957 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5958 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5959 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5961 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5962 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5963 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5964 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5967 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5968 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5969 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5970 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5971 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5973 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5974 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5975 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5976 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5977 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5979 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5980 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5981 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5984 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5985 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5986 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5987 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5988 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5990 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5991 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5992 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5993 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5995 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5996 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5997 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5998 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5999 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6002 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6003 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6004 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6007 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6008 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6009 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6010 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6012 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6013 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6014 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6015 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6017 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6018 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6019 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6020 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6022 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6023 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6024 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6025 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6028 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6029 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6030 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6031 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6032 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6033 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6036 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6037 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6038 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6040 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6041 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6042 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6044 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6045 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6046 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6047 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6049 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6050 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6051 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6053 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6054 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6055 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6056 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6057 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6059 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6060 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6061 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6064 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6065 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6066 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6067 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6068 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6069 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6070 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6071 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6072 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6073 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6075 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6076 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6077 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6078 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6080 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6081 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6082 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6083 Resolves issue 29702.
6085 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6086 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6088 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6089 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6090 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6091 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6094 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6095 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6096 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6097 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6099 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6100 Closes ticket 31859.
6101 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6102 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6104 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6105 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6106 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6107 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6108 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6109 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6110 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6111 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6112 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6113 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6115 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6116 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6117 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6118 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6119 Closes ticket 32500.
6121 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6122 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6123 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6126 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6127 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6130 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6131 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6132 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6133 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6134 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6135 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6136 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6137 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6138 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6139 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6140 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6142 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6143 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6144 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6145 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6146 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6147 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6149 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6150 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6151 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6152 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6153 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6154 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6156 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6157 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6158 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6159 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6160 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6163 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6164 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6165 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6166 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6167 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6169 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6170 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6171 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6172 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6175 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6176 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6177 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6178 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6179 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6181 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6182 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6183 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6184 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6185 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6188 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6189 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6190 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6191 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6192 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6193 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6194 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6195 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6197 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6198 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6199 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6200 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6201 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6204 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6205 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6206 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6208 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6209 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6210 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6213 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6214 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6215 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6216 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6218 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6219 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6220 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6223 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6224 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6225 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6227 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6228 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6229 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6230 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6232 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6233 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6234 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6235 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6236 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6238 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6239 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6240 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6242 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6243 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6244 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6245 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6247 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6248 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6249 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6252 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6253 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6254 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6255 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6256 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6257 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6258 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6259 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6260 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6261 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6262 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6263 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6264 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6267 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6268 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6269 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6270 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6271 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6273 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6274 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6275 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6277 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6278 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6279 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6281 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6282 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6283 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6285 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6286 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6287 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6290 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6291 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6292 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6294 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6295 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6296 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6297 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6298 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6299 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6301 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6302 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6303 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6304 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6305 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6307 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6308 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6309 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6312 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6313 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6314 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6316 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6317 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6318 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6320 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6321 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6322 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6323 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6325 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6326 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6327 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6328 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6330 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6331 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6332 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6333 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6335 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6336 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6337 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6338 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6340 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6341 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6342 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6343 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6344 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6345 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6346 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6348 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6349 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6350 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6351 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6353 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6354 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6355 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6356 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6358 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6359 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6360 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6363 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6364 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6365 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6366 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6367 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6368 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6369 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6371 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6372 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6373 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6374 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6377 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6378 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6379 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6380 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6381 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6383 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6384 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6385 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6387 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6388 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6389 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6390 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6391 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6392 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6393 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6394 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6395 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6396 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6397 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6399 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6400 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6401 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6402 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6403 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6405 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6406 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6407 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6410 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6411 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6412 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6413 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6414 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6416 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6417 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6418 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6419 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6421 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6422 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6423 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6424 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6425 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6428 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6429 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6430 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6433 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6434 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6435 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6436 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6438 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6439 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6440 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6441 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6443 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6444 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6445 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6447 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6448 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6449 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6450 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6452 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6453 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6454 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6455 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6458 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6459 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6460 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6461 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6462 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6463 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6466 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6467 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6468 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6469 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6471 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6472 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6473 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6475 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6476 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6477 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6479 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6480 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6481 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6482 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6483 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6484 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6485 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6487 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6488 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6489 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6492 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6493 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6494 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6495 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6496 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6497 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6498 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6499 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6501 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6502 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6503 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6504 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6505 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6506 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6509 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6510 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6511 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6512 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6513 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6515 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6516 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6517 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6518 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6519 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6520 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6521 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6522 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6524 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6525 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6526 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6529 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6530 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6531 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6532 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6533 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6534 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6535 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6536 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6537 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6538 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6540 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6541 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6542 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6543 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6544 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6545 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6547 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6548 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6549 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6550 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6552 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6553 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6554 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6555 Resolves issue 29702.
6557 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6558 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6560 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6561 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6562 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6563 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6566 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6567 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6568 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6569 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6571 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6572 Closes ticket 31859.
6573 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6574 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6576 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6577 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6578 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6579 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6580 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6581 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6582 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6583 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6584 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6585 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6587 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6588 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6589 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6590 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6591 Closes ticket 32500.
6593 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
6594 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
6595 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
6596 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
6598 o Minor features (build system):
6599 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
6600 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
6602 o Minor features (geoip):
6603 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6604 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
6606 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
6607 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6608 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6609 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6610 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6611 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6613 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6614 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
6615 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6617 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6618 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
6619 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6621 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
6622 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
6623 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
6624 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
6625 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6627 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
6628 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
6629 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
6630 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
6631 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6633 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
6634 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
6635 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6636 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
6637 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6639 o Testing (continuous integration):
6640 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6641 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6642 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6643 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6644 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6645 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6646 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6647 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6648 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6651 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
6652 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
6653 from earlier versions of Tor.
6655 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6656 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6657 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6658 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6659 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6660 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6661 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6662 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6664 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6665 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6666 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6667 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6668 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6671 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
6672 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
6673 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
6674 Closes ticket 29669.
6676 o Minor features (testing):
6677 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
6678 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
6679 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
6680 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
6682 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
6683 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6684 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6685 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6687 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6688 Closes ticket 31859.
6689 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6690 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6692 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
6693 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
6694 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6695 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
6697 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
6698 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6699 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
6700 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
6701 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6703 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
6704 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6705 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6706 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6708 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
6709 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
6710 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6712 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
6713 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6714 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6715 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6716 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6719 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
6720 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6721 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6723 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6724 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6725 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6727 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6728 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
6729 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
6731 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6732 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6733 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6734 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6736 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
6737 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6738 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6741 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6742 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
6743 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6744 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
6745 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
6747 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
6748 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
6749 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
6750 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6753 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
6754 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6755 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
6756 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
6757 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
6758 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
6761 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
6762 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
6763 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
6764 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
6766 o Major features (directory authorities):
6767 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
6768 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
6769 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
6771 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
6772 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
6773 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
6774 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6776 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
6777 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6778 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6779 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6780 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6782 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
6783 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
6784 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
6785 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
6786 Closes ticket 31779.
6788 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6789 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6790 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6791 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6793 o Minor features (geoip):
6794 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6795 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
6797 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
6798 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
6799 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
6800 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
6801 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
6802 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
6803 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
6805 o Minor features (onion services v3):
6806 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
6807 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
6810 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
6811 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
6812 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6814 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
6815 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
6816 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
6817 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6819 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6820 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6821 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
6822 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6824 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6825 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
6826 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6827 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
6828 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6829 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6830 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6831 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6832 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6833 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
6834 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6836 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
6837 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6838 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6839 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6841 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
6842 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
6843 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
6846 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
6847 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
6848 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
6850 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6851 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6852 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6853 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6855 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
6856 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
6857 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6859 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6860 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
6861 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
6862 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
6863 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
6864 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
6865 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
6867 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
6871 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
6872 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
6874 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6875 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6876 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
6877 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
6878 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
6879 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
6882 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6883 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6884 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6885 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6888 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6889 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6890 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6891 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6892 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6893 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6894 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6895 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6896 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6898 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6899 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6900 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6903 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6904 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6905 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6907 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6908 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6909 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6910 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6911 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6913 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6914 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6915 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6917 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6918 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6919 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6920 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6922 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6923 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6924 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6925 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6928 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6929 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6930 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6931 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6932 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6934 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6935 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6936 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6939 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6940 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6941 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6943 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6944 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6945 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6946 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6947 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6948 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6950 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6951 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6952 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6953 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6954 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6955 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6956 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6957 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6958 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6959 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6961 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6962 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6963 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6964 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6967 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
6968 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
6969 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
6970 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
6971 Tor's stability and ease of development.
6973 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
6974 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
6975 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
6976 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
6977 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
6978 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
6981 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6982 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6983 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
6984 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
6985 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
6986 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
6989 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
6990 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6991 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6992 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6993 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6994 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6995 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6996 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6997 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6999 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
7000 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
7001 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
7002 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
7003 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
7004 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
7005 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
7006 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
7007 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
7008 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
7009 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
7010 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
7011 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
7012 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
7013 files. Closes ticket 31175.
7015 o Minor features (build system):
7016 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
7017 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
7018 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
7020 o Minor features (compilation):
7021 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
7022 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
7023 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
7025 o Minor features (configuration):
7026 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
7027 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
7028 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
7029 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
7031 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7032 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
7033 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
7034 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
7036 o Minor features (debugging):
7037 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
7038 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
7039 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
7040 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
7042 o Minor features (git hooks):
7043 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
7044 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
7045 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
7046 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
7047 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
7049 o Minor features (git scripts):
7050 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
7051 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
7052 push. Closes ticket 31314.
7053 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
7054 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
7055 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
7056 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
7057 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
7058 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
7059 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
7060 Closes ticket 31314.
7061 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
7062 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
7063 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
7064 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
7065 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
7066 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
7067 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
7068 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
7069 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
7071 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
7072 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
7073 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
7076 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
7077 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
7078 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
7080 o Minor features (onion service v3):
7081 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
7082 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
7084 o Minor features (onion service):
7085 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
7086 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
7087 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
7088 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
7090 o Minor features (stem tests):
7091 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7092 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7095 o Minor features (testing):
7096 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
7097 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
7098 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
7099 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
7100 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
7101 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
7102 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
7103 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
7104 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
7105 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
7106 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
7108 o Minor features (token bucket):
7109 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
7110 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
7112 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7113 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
7114 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
7115 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7116 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
7117 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
7118 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
7119 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
7122 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
7123 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7124 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7126 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
7127 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
7128 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
7129 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
7130 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
7131 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
7133 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7134 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7135 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7136 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7137 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7139 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7140 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7141 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7143 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7144 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
7145 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
7146 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
7148 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
7149 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
7150 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
7151 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
7152 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
7153 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
7154 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
7155 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
7156 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
7157 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7159 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7160 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
7161 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
7164 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7165 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
7166 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7168 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
7169 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
7170 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
7171 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7172 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
7173 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
7174 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7175 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
7176 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
7177 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
7180 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
7181 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7182 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7183 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7186 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
7187 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
7188 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
7189 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7191 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
7192 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
7193 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
7194 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7195 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
7196 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7197 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
7198 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
7199 Closes ticket 31678.
7201 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7202 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7203 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7204 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7205 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7207 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7208 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
7209 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
7210 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
7211 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7212 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
7213 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
7214 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
7215 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
7218 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7219 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7220 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7222 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
7223 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
7224 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
7226 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7227 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
7228 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
7231 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
7232 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
7233 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
7234 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
7235 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
7236 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7238 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
7239 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
7240 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
7241 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7244 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7245 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
7246 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
7247 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
7248 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7250 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7251 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
7252 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
7253 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
7254 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
7255 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7257 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
7258 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
7259 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
7260 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7262 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7263 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7264 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7265 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
7266 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7268 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
7269 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
7270 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
7271 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7273 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7274 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
7275 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
7276 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
7277 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7279 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
7280 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
7281 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
7282 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
7283 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
7286 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7287 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
7288 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
7291 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
7292 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7293 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7294 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7295 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7296 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7298 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
7299 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7300 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7301 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7302 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7303 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7304 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7305 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7306 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7307 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7310 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
7311 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
7312 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
7313 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
7314 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7315 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7316 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7319 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
7320 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
7321 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
7322 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
7323 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
7324 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
7326 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
7330 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
7331 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
7332 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
7333 Closes ticket 30967.
7335 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
7336 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
7337 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
7338 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
7339 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
7340 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
7341 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
7342 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
7343 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
7344 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
7345 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
7346 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
7347 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
7348 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
7349 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
7350 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
7352 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
7353 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
7354 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
7355 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
7356 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
7357 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
7358 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
7359 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
7360 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
7361 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
7363 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
7364 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
7365 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
7367 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
7368 Closes ticket 30806.
7369 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
7370 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
7373 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
7374 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
7375 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
7377 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
7378 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
7379 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7382 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
7383 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
7384 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
7385 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
7386 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
7387 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
7388 bugfixes on earlier versions.
7390 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
7391 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
7392 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7393 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7395 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
7396 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7398 o Directory authority changes:
7399 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
7402 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
7403 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
7404 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
7405 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
7407 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
7408 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
7409 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
7410 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
7411 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
7412 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
7413 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7415 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7416 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
7417 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
7418 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7420 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7421 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7422 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7423 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7424 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7426 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7427 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7428 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7429 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7430 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7431 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7433 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7434 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7435 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
7438 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7439 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7440 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7442 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
7443 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
7444 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
7447 o Testing (continuous integration):
7448 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
7449 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7450 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
7454 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
7455 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
7456 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
7457 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
7459 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7460 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7461 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
7462 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
7463 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
7464 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7466 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7467 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
7468 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
7470 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7471 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7472 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7473 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7474 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7476 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7477 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
7478 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
7480 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
7481 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
7482 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7484 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7485 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7486 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7487 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7489 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7490 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
7491 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
7494 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7495 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7496 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7499 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7500 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
7501 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
7505 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
7506 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
7507 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
7509 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
7510 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
7511 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
7512 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
7513 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7516 o Minor features (geoip):
7517 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7518 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7520 o Minor features (logging):
7521 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7522 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7523 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7524 Closes ticket 30686.
7526 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7527 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7528 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7530 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7531 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7532 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7533 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7534 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7535 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7536 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7538 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7539 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7540 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7541 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7543 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7544 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
7545 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
7546 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
7547 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7550 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7551 Closes ticket 30630.
7554 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
7555 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
7556 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
7557 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
7558 SENDME implementation.
7560 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7561 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
7562 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
7563 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
7564 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
7565 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
7566 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
7567 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
7568 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
7569 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
7570 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7572 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
7573 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
7574 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
7575 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
7576 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
7577 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7579 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
7580 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
7581 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
7582 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
7583 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7586 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
7587 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
7588 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
7589 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
7590 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
7591 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
7594 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7595 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
7596 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
7599 o Minor features (maintenance):
7600 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7601 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7602 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7604 o Minor features (testing):
7605 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7606 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7607 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7608 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7610 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7611 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7612 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7614 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7615 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7616 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7617 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7619 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7620 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
7621 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
7623 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
7624 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
7627 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7628 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7629 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7632 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7633 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7634 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7637 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7638 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7639 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7640 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7642 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7643 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7644 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7645 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7648 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7649 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7650 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7651 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7652 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7653 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7656 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
7657 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
7658 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
7659 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
7660 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
7661 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7663 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7664 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7665 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7666 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7669 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7670 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7671 Resolves issue 29702.
7674 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
7675 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
7676 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
7677 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
7678 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
7679 performance in several areas.
7681 o Major features (circuit padding):
7682 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
7683 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
7684 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
7685 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
7686 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
7687 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
7688 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
7689 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
7690 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
7692 o Major features (code organization):
7693 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
7694 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
7695 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
7696 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
7699 o Major features (controller protocol):
7700 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
7701 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
7702 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
7703 Closes ticket 30091.
7705 o Major features (flow control):
7706 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
7707 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
7708 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
7709 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
7710 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
7711 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
7712 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
7714 o Major features (performance):
7715 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
7716 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
7717 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
7719 o Major features (performance, RNG):
7720 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
7721 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
7722 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
7723 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
7724 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
7725 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
7726 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
7727 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
7729 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7730 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
7731 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
7732 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
7733 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
7735 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
7736 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
7737 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
7738 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
7741 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7742 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
7744 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
7745 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
7746 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
7747 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
7748 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7749 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
7750 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
7752 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
7753 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
7754 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
7756 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7757 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
7758 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
7760 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
7762 o Minor features (controller):
7763 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
7764 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
7765 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7767 o Minor features (debugging):
7768 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
7769 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
7770 can use format strings to include information for trouble
7771 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
7773 o Minor features (defense in depth):
7774 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
7775 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
7776 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
7777 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
7778 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
7779 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
7780 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
7781 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
7782 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
7784 o Minor features (developer tools):
7785 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
7786 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
7787 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
7788 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
7789 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
7791 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
7792 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
7794 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
7795 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
7797 o Minor features (geoip):
7798 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7799 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
7801 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
7802 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
7803 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
7805 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
7806 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
7807 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
7808 addresses. Implements 26992.
7810 o Minor features (modularity):
7811 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
7812 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
7814 o Minor features (performance):
7815 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7816 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7817 Closes ticket 28837.
7819 o Minor features (testing):
7820 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7821 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7822 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7823 Implements ticket 29732.
7824 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7825 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7827 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7828 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7830 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7831 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7832 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7833 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7834 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7835 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7837 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7838 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7839 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7840 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7842 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7843 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7844 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7845 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7846 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7847 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7848 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7849 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7850 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7851 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7852 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7853 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7854 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7855 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7856 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7857 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7858 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7859 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7861 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7862 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7863 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7864 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7866 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7867 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7868 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7869 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7870 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7872 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
7873 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7874 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7875 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7877 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7878 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7879 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7880 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7881 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7882 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7884 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7885 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7887 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7888 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7889 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7890 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7891 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7892 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7893 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7896 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7897 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7898 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7901 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7902 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7903 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7904 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7905 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7906 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7907 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7908 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7910 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7911 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7912 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7913 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7914 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7915 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7916 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7918 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7919 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7920 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7921 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7922 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7923 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7925 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7926 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7927 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7928 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7929 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7931 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7932 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7933 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7935 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7936 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7937 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7940 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7941 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7942 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7943 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7945 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7946 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7947 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7948 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7949 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7951 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7952 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7953 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7954 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7955 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7957 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7958 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7959 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7960 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7961 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7962 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7963 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7964 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7965 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7966 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7967 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7968 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7969 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7971 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7972 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7973 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7974 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7975 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7977 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7978 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7979 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7980 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7981 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7982 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7983 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7984 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7985 Resolves issue 28816.
7986 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7987 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7988 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7989 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7990 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7991 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7992 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7993 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7994 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7995 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7996 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7997 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7998 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7999 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
8000 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
8001 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
8002 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8003 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
8004 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8005 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
8006 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
8007 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
8008 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
8009 Closes ticket 29894.
8010 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
8011 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
8012 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
8013 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
8016 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
8017 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
8021 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
8022 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
8023 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
8024 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
8027 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8028 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
8029 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
8030 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
8031 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
8032 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
8033 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
8034 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
8035 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
8036 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
8037 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
8040 o Testing (chutney):
8041 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
8042 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
8043 Closes ticket 27251.
8046 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
8047 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
8048 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
8049 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
8050 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
8051 long-term maintainability.
8053 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
8054 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
8055 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
8056 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
8058 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
8059 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8061 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8062 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
8063 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
8064 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
8066 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8067 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
8068 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
8071 o Minor features (testing):
8072 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
8073 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
8076 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8077 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
8078 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8080 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
8081 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
8082 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
8083 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8085 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8086 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
8087 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
8089 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
8090 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
8091 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8094 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
8095 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
8096 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
8097 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
8099 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
8100 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
8101 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
8102 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
8103 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
8104 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8106 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
8107 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
8108 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
8109 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
8110 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
8112 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
8113 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
8114 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
8117 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8118 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
8119 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
8120 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
8121 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
8124 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8125 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
8126 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
8129 o Minor features (dormant mode):
8130 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
8131 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
8132 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
8133 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
8134 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
8135 background. Closes ticket 29357.
8137 o Minor features (geoip):
8138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8139 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
8141 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
8142 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
8143 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
8144 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
8146 o Minor bugfixes (security):
8147 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
8148 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
8149 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
8150 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
8151 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
8152 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
8153 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
8154 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
8156 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
8157 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
8158 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
8159 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
8161 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
8162 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
8163 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
8164 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
8165 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
8167 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
8168 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
8169 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8171 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
8172 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
8173 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
8176 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8177 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
8178 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
8181 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
8182 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
8183 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8185 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8186 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
8187 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8189 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8190 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
8191 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
8192 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
8193 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
8194 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
8197 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8198 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
8199 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
8200 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
8201 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8203 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8204 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
8205 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
8206 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8207 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
8208 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
8211 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
8212 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
8213 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
8214 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
8215 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
8216 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
8217 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
8218 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8220 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8221 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
8222 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
8223 Resolves issue 28816.
8224 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
8225 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
8228 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
8229 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
8232 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
8233 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
8234 bugs from earlier versions.
8236 o Minor features (address selection):
8237 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
8238 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
8239 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
8240 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
8241 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
8242 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
8243 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8245 o Minor features (geoip):
8246 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8247 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
8249 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
8250 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8251 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
8252 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8254 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8255 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
8256 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
8257 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
8258 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8259 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
8260 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
8261 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
8262 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8263 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
8264 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8266 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
8267 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
8268 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
8269 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8271 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
8272 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
8273 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8275 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8276 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
8277 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
8280 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
8281 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
8282 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8284 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
8285 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
8286 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
8287 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
8288 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
8289 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
8290 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
8292 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8293 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
8294 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
8297 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8298 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
8299 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
8300 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
8301 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
8302 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
8303 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
8304 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8305 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
8306 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8308 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
8309 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
8310 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
8311 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
8312 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
8313 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8316 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
8317 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
8318 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
8321 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8322 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8323 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8325 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8326 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8327 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8328 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8329 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8330 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8331 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8332 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8334 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8335 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8336 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8337 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8338 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8340 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8341 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8342 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8343 Patches from "Mangix".
8345 o Minor features (geoip):
8346 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8347 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8349 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8350 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8353 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8354 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8355 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8356 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8357 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8358 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8360 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8361 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8362 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8363 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8366 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8367 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8368 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8369 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8371 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8372 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8373 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8376 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8377 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8378 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8379 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8381 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8382 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8383 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8384 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8386 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8387 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8388 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8389 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8390 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8391 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8393 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8394 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8395 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8396 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8397 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8399 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8400 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8401 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8402 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8403 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8405 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8406 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8407 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8409 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8410 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8411 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8413 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8414 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8415 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8416 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8418 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8419 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8420 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8422 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8423 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8424 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8425 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8426 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8429 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8430 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8431 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8432 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8433 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8436 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8437 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8438 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8439 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8440 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8442 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8443 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8444 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8445 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8446 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8447 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8448 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8449 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8451 o Minor features (geoip):
8452 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8453 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8455 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8456 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8457 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8458 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8460 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8461 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8462 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8463 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8464 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8467 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8468 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8469 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8470 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8472 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8473 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8474 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8475 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8477 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8478 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8479 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8480 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8481 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8482 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8483 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8484 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8486 o Minor features (geoip):
8487 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8488 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8490 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8491 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8492 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8493 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8495 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8496 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8497 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8498 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8499 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8502 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
8503 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
8504 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
8505 backward compatibility.
8507 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8508 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8509 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8511 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8512 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8513 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8514 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8515 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8516 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8517 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8518 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8520 o Major bugfixes (networking):
8521 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8522 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8523 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8524 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8526 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
8527 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
8528 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
8529 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
8530 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
8531 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
8532 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8534 o Minor features (compilation):
8535 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8536 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8537 Patches from "Mangix".
8539 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8540 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
8541 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
8542 release. Closes ticket 27761.
8543 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
8544 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
8545 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
8548 o Minor features (directory authority):
8549 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
8550 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
8551 Closes ticket 26698.
8553 o Minor features (geoip):
8554 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8555 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8557 o Minor features (testing):
8558 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8561 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
8562 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8563 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8564 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8566 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8567 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
8568 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8569 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
8570 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8572 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8573 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8574 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8575 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8577 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
8578 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
8579 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
8581 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8582 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
8583 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8584 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8585 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8586 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8587 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8589 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8590 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8591 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8592 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8593 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8595 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8596 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8597 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8599 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8600 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8601 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8603 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8604 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8605 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8606 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8608 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
8609 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
8610 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
8611 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
8612 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
8615 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
8616 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
8617 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8618 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
8619 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
8620 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
8621 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8622 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8623 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8624 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8625 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8629 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
8630 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
8631 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
8634 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
8637 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
8638 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
8639 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
8640 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
8641 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
8642 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
8645 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
8646 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
8647 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
8648 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
8649 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
8650 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
8652 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
8653 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
8655 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
8656 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
8659 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
8660 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
8661 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
8662 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
8663 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
8664 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
8665 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
8666 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
8667 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
8670 o Major features (circuit padding):
8671 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
8672 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
8673 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
8674 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
8675 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
8676 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
8677 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
8678 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
8681 o Major features (refactoring):
8682 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
8683 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
8684 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
8685 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
8688 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
8689 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
8690 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
8691 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
8692 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
8695 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8696 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
8699 o Minor features (controller):
8700 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
8701 Implements ticket 28843.
8703 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8704 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
8705 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
8706 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
8708 o Minor features (directory authority):
8709 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
8710 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
8711 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
8712 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
8715 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
8716 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
8717 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
8718 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
8719 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
8720 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
8721 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
8723 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8724 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
8725 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
8727 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
8728 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
8729 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
8730 Closes ticket 28518.
8732 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
8733 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
8734 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
8735 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
8737 o Minor features (IPv6):
8738 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
8739 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
8740 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
8741 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
8742 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
8743 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8744 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
8745 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
8746 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
8747 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8749 o Minor features (log messages):
8750 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
8751 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
8754 o Minor features (memory usage):
8755 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
8756 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
8757 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
8758 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
8759 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
8761 o Minor features (parsing):
8762 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
8763 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
8764 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
8766 o Minor features (performance):
8767 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
8768 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
8769 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
8770 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
8772 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
8773 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
8774 Closes ticket 28852.
8775 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
8776 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
8777 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
8778 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
8779 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
8780 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
8782 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
8783 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
8784 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
8785 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
8786 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
8788 o Minor features (process management):
8789 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
8790 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
8791 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
8792 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
8793 module. Closes ticket 28847.
8795 o Minor features (relay):
8796 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
8797 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
8798 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
8800 o Minor features (required protocols):
8801 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
8802 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
8803 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
8804 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
8805 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
8806 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
8807 297; closes ticket 27735.
8809 o Minor features (testing):
8810 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
8811 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
8813 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
8814 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
8815 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8816 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8817 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8820 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8821 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8822 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8823 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8825 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
8826 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8827 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8829 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
8830 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
8831 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
8832 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8834 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
8835 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
8836 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
8837 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
8838 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
8840 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
8841 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
8842 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
8843 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
8844 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
8845 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
8846 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8848 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
8849 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8850 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8851 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8854 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8855 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8856 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8857 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8858 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8859 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8861 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8862 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
8863 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
8864 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8866 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
8867 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8868 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8869 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8870 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8871 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8873 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
8874 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
8875 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
8876 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8878 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8879 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
8880 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
8881 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
8882 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8884 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8885 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
8886 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
8887 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
8888 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8890 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8891 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8892 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8893 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8894 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8896 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8897 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
8898 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
8899 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
8901 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
8902 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
8903 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
8904 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
8905 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
8906 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
8907 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
8908 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
8912 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
8913 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
8914 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
8915 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
8917 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
8920 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
8921 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
8922 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
8923 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
8924 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
8925 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
8926 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
8929 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
8931 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
8932 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
8934 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
8935 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
8936 code from client and service into one function. Closes
8939 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8940 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
8942 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
8943 Resolves ticket 28006.
8944 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
8945 Resolves ticket 28012.
8946 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
8947 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
8948 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
8949 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
8953 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8954 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8955 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8956 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8957 to this version, or to a later series.
8959 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8960 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8961 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8962 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8963 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8964 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8966 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8967 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8968 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8969 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8970 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8973 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8974 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8975 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8976 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8978 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8979 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8980 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8981 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8982 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8983 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8984 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8985 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8987 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8988 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8989 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8990 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8992 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8993 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8994 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8995 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8996 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8998 o Minor features (geoip):
8999 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9000 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9002 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9003 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9004 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9005 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9006 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9007 Closes ticket 28973.
9009 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9010 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9011 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9012 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9014 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9015 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9016 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9019 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9020 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9021 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9024 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9025 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9026 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9028 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9029 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9030 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9031 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9033 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9034 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9035 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9036 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9037 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9038 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9041 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9042 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9043 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9046 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9047 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9048 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9049 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9050 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9052 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9053 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9054 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9055 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9056 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9058 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9059 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9060 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9061 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9062 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9063 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9065 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9066 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
9067 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
9070 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9071 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9072 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9074 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9075 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9076 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9078 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9079 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9080 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9083 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9084 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9085 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9086 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9087 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9088 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9089 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9090 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9092 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9093 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9094 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9095 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9097 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9098 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9099 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9100 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9101 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9102 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9103 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9104 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9105 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9106 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9108 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9109 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9110 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9111 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9112 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9113 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9115 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9116 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9117 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9118 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9119 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9121 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9122 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9123 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9126 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
9127 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9128 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
9129 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
9132 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
9133 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
9134 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
9137 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9138 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9139 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9140 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9141 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9144 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9145 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9146 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9147 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9148 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9149 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9150 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9152 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9153 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9154 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9157 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9158 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
9159 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
9160 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
9161 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
9164 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9165 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9166 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9167 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9168 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9170 o Minor features (geoip):
9171 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9172 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9174 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9175 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9176 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9177 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9178 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9179 Closes ticket 28973.
9181 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9182 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9183 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9184 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9186 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9187 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9188 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9189 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9190 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9193 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9194 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9195 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9196 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9198 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9199 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9200 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9202 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9203 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9204 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9205 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9207 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9208 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9209 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9210 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9211 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9212 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9215 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9216 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9217 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9219 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9220 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9221 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9222 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9223 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9225 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9226 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9227 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9228 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9229 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9230 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9232 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9233 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9234 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9235 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9237 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9238 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9239 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9242 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
9243 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9244 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
9245 affecting directory caches.
9247 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
9248 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
9249 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
9250 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
9251 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
9252 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
9253 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
9254 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
9256 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
9257 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
9258 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
9259 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
9260 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
9261 so it will recognize them.
9263 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
9264 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
9265 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
9266 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
9267 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
9268 with the latest stable release.)
9270 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
9271 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9273 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
9274 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9275 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9276 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9277 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9278 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9279 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9281 o Minor features (compilation):
9282 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
9283 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
9285 o Minor features (geoip):
9286 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9287 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9289 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
9290 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9291 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9292 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9293 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9294 Closes ticket 28973.
9296 o Minor features (performance):
9297 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
9298 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
9299 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
9300 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
9301 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
9302 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
9303 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
9304 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
9305 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
9306 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
9308 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9309 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
9310 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9312 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9313 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
9314 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
9315 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
9316 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9318 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9319 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
9320 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
9321 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
9322 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9323 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9324 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9326 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
9327 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
9328 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
9330 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9331 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9332 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9336 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
9337 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
9338 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
9339 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
9341 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
9342 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9343 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9346 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9347 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9348 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9349 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9350 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9352 o Minor features (geoip):
9353 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9354 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
9356 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9357 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
9358 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9360 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9361 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9362 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9363 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9365 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9366 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9367 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9368 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9369 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9370 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9372 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
9373 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
9374 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
9377 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9378 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
9379 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
9380 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9381 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
9382 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9383 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9385 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9386 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9387 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9388 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9389 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9390 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9391 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9392 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9394 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9395 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9396 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9397 reported by Keifer Bly.
9400 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9401 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9403 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9404 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9405 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9406 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9407 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9408 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9409 Closes ticket 19566.
9411 o Documentation (onion services):
9412 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9413 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9414 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9415 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9416 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9417 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9420 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
9421 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
9422 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
9425 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
9426 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9427 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9428 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9429 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9432 o Minor features (geoip):
9433 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9434 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9436 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9437 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9438 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9439 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9441 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
9442 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9443 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9444 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9445 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9448 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9449 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9450 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9451 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9453 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9454 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9455 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9457 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9458 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
9459 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9461 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9462 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
9463 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
9466 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9467 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
9468 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
9471 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9472 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9473 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9475 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9476 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
9477 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
9478 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
9479 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
9480 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
9481 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
9482 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
9483 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
9484 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9487 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
9488 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
9489 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
9490 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
9491 acceptable long-term-support release.
9493 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
9494 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
9495 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
9496 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
9497 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
9498 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9500 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
9501 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
9502 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
9503 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
9504 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9506 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9507 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
9509 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
9510 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
9512 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
9513 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
9514 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
9516 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
9517 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9518 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9521 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9522 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
9523 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9525 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
9526 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
9527 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
9530 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9531 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
9532 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
9535 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9536 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9537 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
9538 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9540 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9541 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
9542 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
9543 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
9546 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
9547 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
9548 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
9549 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9551 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9552 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
9553 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
9554 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
9555 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
9556 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
9557 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9559 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9560 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
9561 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
9564 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
9565 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
9568 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9569 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9570 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9571 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9572 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9574 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
9575 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9576 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9577 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9578 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9579 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9581 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9582 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9583 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9584 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9585 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9587 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9588 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
9589 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9591 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
9592 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9593 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9594 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9595 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9597 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
9598 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9599 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9602 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9603 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9604 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9605 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9606 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9608 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9609 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9610 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9612 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9613 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9614 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9615 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9616 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9618 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9619 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9620 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9621 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9622 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9625 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9626 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9627 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9628 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9630 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9631 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9632 Implements ticket 27252.
9633 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9634 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9635 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9636 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9637 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9638 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9639 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9641 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9642 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9643 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9644 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9646 o Minor features (geoip):
9647 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9648 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9650 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9651 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9652 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9653 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9654 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9656 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9657 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9658 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9659 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9660 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9663 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9664 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9665 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9668 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9669 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9670 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9671 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9672 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9674 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9675 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9676 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9678 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9679 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9680 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9682 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9683 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9684 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9685 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9687 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9688 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9689 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9691 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9692 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9693 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9696 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9697 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9698 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9700 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9701 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9702 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9705 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9706 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9707 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9708 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9709 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9711 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9712 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9713 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9714 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9715 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9716 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9718 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9719 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9720 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9723 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9724 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9725 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9726 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9727 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9728 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9729 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9730 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9732 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9733 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9734 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9735 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9737 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9738 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9739 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9740 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9741 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9743 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9744 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9745 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9746 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9747 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9748 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9750 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9751 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9752 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9753 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9754 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9755 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9757 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9758 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9759 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9760 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9763 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9764 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9765 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9766 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9767 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9770 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
9771 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
9772 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
9773 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
9774 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
9775 getting closer and closer to stability.
9777 o Major features (onion services):
9778 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
9779 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
9780 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
9781 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
9782 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
9784 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
9785 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9786 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9788 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
9789 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
9790 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
9791 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9793 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
9794 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9795 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9796 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9797 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9799 o Major bugfixes (relay):
9800 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9801 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9802 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9803 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9806 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9807 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9808 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9809 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9810 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
9811 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
9814 o Minor features (geoip):
9815 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9816 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9818 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
9819 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9820 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9823 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9824 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
9825 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
9826 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
9827 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
9828 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
9831 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
9832 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
9835 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
9836 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9837 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9838 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9839 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9841 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
9842 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9843 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9844 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9845 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9846 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9849 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9850 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
9851 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9853 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9854 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
9855 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
9857 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
9858 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
9859 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9861 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9862 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
9863 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
9865 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9866 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9867 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9868 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9869 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9870 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9871 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9872 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9873 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9875 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
9876 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9877 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9880 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9881 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9882 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9883 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9885 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
9886 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9888 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9889 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9890 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9891 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9892 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9893 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9894 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9895 Closes ticket 27814.
9896 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9897 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9898 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9899 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9900 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9901 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9904 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9905 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9906 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9907 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9910 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
9911 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
9912 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
9913 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
9915 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
9916 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
9917 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
9918 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
9919 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
9920 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
9922 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
9923 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
9924 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
9925 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
9926 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
9929 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
9930 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9931 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9932 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9933 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9935 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9936 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9937 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9938 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9939 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9942 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9943 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9944 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9945 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9946 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9948 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9949 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
9950 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
9951 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
9953 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
9954 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
9955 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
9958 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
9959 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9960 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9961 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9963 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9964 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
9965 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
9966 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9968 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9969 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9970 Closes ticket 27799.
9973 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
9974 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
9975 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
9976 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
9977 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
9979 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
9980 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
9981 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
9982 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
9983 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
9984 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
9986 o Major features (relay, UI change):
9987 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
9988 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
9989 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
9990 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
9991 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9992 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
9993 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
9995 o Major features (bootstrap):
9996 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
9997 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
9998 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
9999 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
10001 o Major features (new code layout):
10002 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
10003 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
10004 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
10005 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
10006 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
10007 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
10008 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
10010 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
10011 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
10012 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
10014 o Major features (onion services v3):
10015 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
10016 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
10017 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
10018 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
10019 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
10020 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
10021 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
10022 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
10023 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
10024 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
10025 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
10026 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
10027 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
10029 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
10030 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
10031 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
10032 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
10033 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
10034 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
10035 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
10037 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
10038 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
10039 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
10040 (if present), and restart Tor.
10042 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10043 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
10044 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
10045 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
10048 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
10049 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
10050 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
10051 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10053 o Minor features (admin tools):
10054 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
10055 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
10058 o Minor features (build):
10059 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
10060 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
10061 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
10062 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
10064 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
10065 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
10066 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
10067 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
10068 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
10070 o Minor features (code layout):
10071 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
10072 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
10073 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
10074 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
10077 o Minor features (compilation):
10078 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
10079 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
10080 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
10081 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
10084 o Minor features (config):
10085 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
10088 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10089 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
10090 Implements ticket 27252.
10091 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10092 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10093 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
10094 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
10095 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
10096 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
10097 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
10098 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
10099 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
10101 o Minor features (controller):
10102 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
10103 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
10104 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
10105 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
10106 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
10107 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
10108 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
10109 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
10111 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
10112 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
10113 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
10114 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
10116 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10117 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
10118 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
10119 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10121 o Minor features (development):
10122 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
10123 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
10125 o Minor features (directory authority):
10126 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
10127 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
10128 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
10129 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
10131 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
10132 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
10135 o Minor features (embedding API):
10136 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
10137 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
10138 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
10139 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
10140 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
10141 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
10144 o Minor features (geoip):
10145 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10146 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
10148 o Minor features (memory management):
10149 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
10150 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
10153 o Minor features (memory usage):
10154 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
10155 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
10156 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
10158 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
10159 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
10160 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
10162 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
10163 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
10164 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
10165 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
10167 o Minor features (testing):
10168 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
10169 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
10171 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
10172 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
10173 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
10175 o Minor features (UI):
10176 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
10177 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
10178 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
10179 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
10180 Closes ticket 26703.
10182 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10183 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
10184 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
10185 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10187 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10188 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
10189 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
10190 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10191 - Use time_t for all values in
10192 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
10193 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
10194 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10196 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
10197 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
10198 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
10199 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
10200 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
10203 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
10204 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
10205 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
10206 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
10207 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
10208 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10210 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
10211 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
10212 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
10213 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10215 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
10216 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
10217 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
10218 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
10219 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
10221 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10222 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
10223 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10225 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10226 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
10227 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
10228 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
10229 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
10232 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
10233 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
10234 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10236 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
10237 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
10238 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
10241 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
10242 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
10243 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
10244 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
10245 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10247 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10248 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
10249 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
10250 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
10251 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10252 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
10253 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
10255 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
10256 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
10257 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
10258 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
10259 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10261 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
10262 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
10263 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10265 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
10266 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
10267 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
10268 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
10271 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10272 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
10273 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
10276 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
10277 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
10278 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
10279 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
10280 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
10282 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
10283 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
10284 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
10285 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
10287 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10288 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
10289 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
10290 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
10292 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10293 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
10294 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
10295 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
10296 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
10297 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10298 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10299 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
10300 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
10301 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10303 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
10304 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
10305 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
10306 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
10307 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
10308 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10309 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10310 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10312 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10313 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
10314 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10315 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10316 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10317 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10318 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10319 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10320 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
10321 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
10322 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10323 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
10324 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10326 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10327 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
10328 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
10329 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
10330 directory within the top-level src directory.
10331 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
10332 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
10333 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
10334 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
10335 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
10336 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
10337 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
10338 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
10339 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
10340 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
10341 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
10342 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
10343 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
10344 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
10345 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
10346 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
10347 Closes ticket 21349.
10348 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
10349 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
10350 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
10351 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
10352 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
10353 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
10354 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
10356 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
10357 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
10358 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
10361 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
10362 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
10363 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
10364 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
10365 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
10367 o Removed features:
10368 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
10369 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
10370 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
10371 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
10372 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
10373 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
10374 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
10375 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
10376 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
10377 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
10378 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
10379 Closes ticket 26367.
10382 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
10383 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
10385 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10386 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10387 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10388 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10390 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10391 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10393 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10394 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10395 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10396 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10398 o Minor features (geoip):
10399 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10400 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10402 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10403 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10404 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10405 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10407 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10408 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10409 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10410 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10411 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10412 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10413 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10414 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10417 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10418 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10419 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10420 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10422 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10423 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10424 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10425 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10427 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10428 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10429 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10430 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10432 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10433 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10434 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10435 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10436 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10438 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10439 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10440 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10443 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10444 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10445 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10446 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10447 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10449 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10450 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10451 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10454 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10455 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10456 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10457 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10459 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10460 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10461 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10463 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10464 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10465 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10468 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10469 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10470 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10471 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10472 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10474 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10475 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10476 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10479 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
10480 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10482 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10483 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10484 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10485 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10487 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10488 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10490 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10491 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10492 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10493 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10495 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10496 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10499 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10500 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10501 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10502 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10504 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10505 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10506 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10507 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10509 o Minor features (geoip):
10510 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10511 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10513 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10514 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10515 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10516 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10517 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10518 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10519 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10521 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10522 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10523 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10524 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10525 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10526 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10527 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10528 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10531 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10532 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10533 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10534 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10536 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10537 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10538 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10539 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10541 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10542 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10543 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10544 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10545 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10547 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10548 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10549 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10550 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10551 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10553 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10554 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10555 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10558 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10559 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10560 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10561 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10562 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10564 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10565 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10566 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10569 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10570 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10571 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10574 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10575 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10576 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10579 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10580 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10582 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10583 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10584 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10585 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10587 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10588 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10589 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10590 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10592 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10593 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10594 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10596 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10597 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10598 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10599 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10600 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10601 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10602 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10605 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10606 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
10607 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
10608 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
10609 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10611 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10612 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10613 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10614 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10615 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10617 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10618 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10619 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10622 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
10623 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10625 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10626 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10627 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10628 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10630 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10631 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10632 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10633 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10635 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10636 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10637 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10639 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10640 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10641 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10642 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10644 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10645 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10648 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10649 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10650 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10651 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10653 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10654 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10655 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10656 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10658 o Minor features (geoip):
10659 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10660 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10662 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10663 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10664 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10665 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10666 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10667 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10668 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10670 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10671 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10672 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10673 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10674 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10675 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10676 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10677 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10680 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10681 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10682 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10683 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10685 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10686 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10687 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10688 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10690 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10691 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10692 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10693 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10694 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10696 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10697 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10698 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10699 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10700 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10702 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10703 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10704 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10707 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10708 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10709 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10710 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10712 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10713 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10714 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10715 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10716 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10718 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10719 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10720 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10723 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10724 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10725 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10728 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10729 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10730 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10733 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10734 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10735 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10736 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10738 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10739 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10740 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10743 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10744 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10746 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10747 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10748 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10749 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10750 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10751 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10752 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10754 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10755 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10756 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10757 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10758 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10760 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10761 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10762 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10763 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10765 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10766 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10767 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10769 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10770 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10771 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10772 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10773 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10774 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10775 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10778 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10779 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10780 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10781 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10782 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10784 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10785 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10786 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10787 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10788 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10790 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10791 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10792 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10795 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
10796 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
10797 compilation and portability fixes.
10799 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
10800 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
10801 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
10802 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
10803 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
10804 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
10805 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
10806 our anti-denial-of-service code.
10808 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
10809 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10811 o Minor features (compatibility):
10812 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10813 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10814 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10816 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10817 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
10818 Implements ticket 27449.
10819 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
10820 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
10823 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10824 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10825 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10826 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10827 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10828 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10829 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10830 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10833 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10834 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
10835 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
10836 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
10837 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
10838 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10839 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10840 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10841 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10842 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10844 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10845 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10846 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10849 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10850 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10851 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10852 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10853 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10854 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10855 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10858 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
10859 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10860 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10861 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10862 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10864 o Minor features (bug workaround):
10865 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10866 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10867 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10869 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10870 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10871 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10873 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10874 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10875 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
10876 Implements ticket 27275.
10877 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10878 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10880 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
10881 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10884 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10885 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10886 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10887 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10889 o Minor features (geoip):
10890 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10891 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10893 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
10894 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10895 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10896 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10898 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10899 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
10900 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
10901 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
10902 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10903 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10904 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10905 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10907 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
10908 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10909 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10910 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10912 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10913 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10914 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10915 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10916 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10918 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10919 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10920 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10923 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10924 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10925 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10928 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10929 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10931 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10932 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10933 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10934 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10935 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10936 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10937 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10939 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10940 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10941 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10942 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10943 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10945 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10946 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10947 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10948 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10949 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10951 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10952 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10953 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10954 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10955 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10957 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10958 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10959 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10962 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
10963 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10964 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10965 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10966 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10968 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
10969 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
10970 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
10971 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
10972 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
10973 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10975 o Minor features (compilation):
10976 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10977 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10979 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10980 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10981 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10982 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10983 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10984 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10986 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10987 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10988 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10989 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10991 o Minor features (controller):
10992 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10993 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10994 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10996 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10997 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10998 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11001 o Minor features (geoip):
11002 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11003 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11005 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11006 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11008 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11009 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
11010 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11011 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11012 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11013 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11014 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11016 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11017 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11018 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11019 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
11020 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
11021 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11023 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11024 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11025 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11028 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11029 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11030 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11032 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11033 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11034 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11037 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11038 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
11039 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11040 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11041 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11042 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11044 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
11045 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
11046 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
11047 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11049 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11050 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11051 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11053 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11054 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
11055 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
11056 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
11057 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
11058 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
11060 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
11061 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11062 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11063 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11064 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11067 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
11068 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11069 bridge relays should upgrade.
11071 o Directory authority changes:
11072 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11073 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11074 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11077 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
11078 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11079 bridge relays should upgrade.
11081 o Directory authority changes:
11082 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11083 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11084 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11087 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
11088 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11089 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11092 o Directory authority changes:
11093 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11094 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11095 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11097 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11098 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11099 Closes ticket 26343.
11101 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11102 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11103 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11104 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11105 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11107 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11108 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11109 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11111 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11112 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11113 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11114 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11116 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11117 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
11118 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
11120 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11121 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11122 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11123 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11124 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11125 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11127 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11128 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11129 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11130 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11132 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11133 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11134 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11137 o Minor features (geoip):
11138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11139 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11141 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11142 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11143 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11144 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11145 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11147 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11148 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11149 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11151 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11152 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11153 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11154 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11155 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11156 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11157 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11158 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11161 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11162 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11163 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11164 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11165 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11166 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11168 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11169 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11170 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11171 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11172 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11174 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11175 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11176 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11177 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11178 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11180 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11181 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11182 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11185 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11186 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11187 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11189 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11190 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11191 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11192 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11194 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11195 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11196 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11197 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11198 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11199 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11200 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11202 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11203 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11204 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11205 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11208 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11209 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11210 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11212 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11213 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11214 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11216 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11217 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11218 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11219 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11222 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11223 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11224 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11225 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11227 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11228 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11229 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11231 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11232 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11233 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11236 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
11237 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11238 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11241 o Directory authority changes:
11242 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11243 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11244 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11246 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11247 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11248 Closes ticket 26343.
11250 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11251 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11252 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11253 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11254 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11256 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11257 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11258 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11259 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11261 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11262 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11263 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11264 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11265 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11266 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11268 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11269 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11270 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11273 o Minor features (geoip):
11274 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11275 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11277 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11278 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11279 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11280 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11281 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11283 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11284 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11285 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11287 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11288 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11289 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11290 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11293 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11294 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11295 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11296 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11297 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11298 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11300 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11301 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11302 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11303 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11304 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11306 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11307 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11308 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11311 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11312 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11313 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11315 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11316 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11317 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11318 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11320 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11321 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11322 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11324 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11325 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11326 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11329 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
11330 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11331 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11332 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11333 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11335 o Minor features (compilation):
11336 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11337 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11340 o Minor features (geoip):
11341 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11342 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11344 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11345 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11347 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11348 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11349 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11350 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11351 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11353 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11354 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11355 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11356 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11357 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11358 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11360 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11361 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11362 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11365 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11366 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11367 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11369 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11370 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11371 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11372 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11373 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11374 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11375 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11376 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11380 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
11381 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11382 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
11384 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11385 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11386 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11387 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11389 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11390 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11391 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11394 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11395 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11396 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11399 o Minor features (geoip):
11400 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11401 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11403 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11404 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11405 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11406 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11408 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11409 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11410 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11411 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11412 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11415 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11416 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11417 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11418 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11419 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11421 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11422 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11423 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11424 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11426 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11427 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11428 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11430 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11431 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11432 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11433 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11436 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11437 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
11438 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
11439 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11441 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11442 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11443 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11444 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11445 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11446 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11447 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11448 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11452 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
11453 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
11454 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
11456 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11457 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11458 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11459 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11461 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
11462 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11463 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11466 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
11467 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
11468 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
11469 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
11471 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
11472 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11473 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11474 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11476 o Minor features (unit tests):
11477 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
11478 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
11479 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
11482 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11483 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
11484 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
11485 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11486 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
11487 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
11488 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11489 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
11490 Closes ticket 26245.
11492 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11493 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
11494 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
11495 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
11496 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
11497 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11499 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11500 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11501 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11502 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11505 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11506 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
11507 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11508 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
11509 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
11510 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
11511 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
11512 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
11513 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11514 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
11515 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
11516 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
11517 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
11518 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11521 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
11522 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11523 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
11525 o Directory authority changes:
11526 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11527 Closes ticket 26343.
11529 o Minor features (geoip):
11530 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11531 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11533 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11534 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11535 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11536 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11537 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11538 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11540 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11541 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11542 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11544 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11545 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11546 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11547 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11548 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11550 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11551 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11552 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11554 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11555 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
11556 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
11557 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
11558 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
11559 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11562 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
11563 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
11564 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
11566 o Directory authority changes:
11567 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11568 Closes ticket 26343.
11570 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
11571 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11572 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11573 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11574 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11576 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11577 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
11578 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
11579 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
11581 o Minor features (geoip):
11582 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11583 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11585 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
11586 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11587 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11588 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11589 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11590 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11592 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11593 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11594 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11595 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
11596 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11597 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
11598 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
11599 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11601 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11602 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
11603 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
11604 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
11607 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11608 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11609 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11610 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11611 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11613 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
11614 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11615 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11617 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11618 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
11619 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11621 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
11622 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
11623 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
11624 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
11628 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
11629 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
11630 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11632 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
11633 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
11634 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
11635 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
11636 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
11637 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
11639 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
11640 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11642 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11643 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11644 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11645 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11646 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11648 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
11649 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11650 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11651 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11652 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11654 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11655 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
11656 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
11657 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11659 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11660 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
11661 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
11662 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11664 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11665 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11666 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11668 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11669 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
11670 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11673 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11674 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11675 Closes ticket 26006.
11677 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11678 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11679 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11680 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11681 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11682 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11684 o Minor features (geoip):
11685 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11686 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11688 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11689 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11690 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11693 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11694 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11695 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11696 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11697 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11699 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11700 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11701 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11702 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11703 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11706 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11707 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11708 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11710 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11711 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11712 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11713 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11714 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11715 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11716 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11718 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11719 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11720 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11722 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11723 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11724 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11727 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
11728 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
11729 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
11730 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
11731 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
11732 other small features and bugfixes.
11734 o New system requirements:
11735 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
11736 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
11737 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
11738 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
11740 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
11741 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
11742 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
11743 To disable the module, the configure option
11744 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
11745 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
11747 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
11748 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
11749 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
11750 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
11751 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
11752 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
11753 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
11754 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
11755 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
11756 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
11757 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
11759 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
11760 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
11761 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
11762 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
11763 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
11764 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
11765 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
11766 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
11767 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
11768 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
11769 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
11770 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
11771 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
11772 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
11773 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
11774 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
11775 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
11776 Tor's uptime (26009).
11778 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
11779 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11780 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11781 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11782 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11784 o Major bugfixes (crash):
11785 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
11786 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
11787 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11789 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11790 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
11791 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
11792 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11794 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
11795 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11796 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11798 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
11799 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
11800 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
11801 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
11802 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
11803 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
11804 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
11805 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
11806 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
11807 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
11808 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
11809 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
11810 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
11811 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11813 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
11814 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
11815 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11818 o Minor features (accounting):
11819 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
11820 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
11821 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
11822 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
11824 o Minor features (code quality):
11825 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
11826 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
11827 Closes ticket 25024.
11829 o Minor features (compatibility):
11830 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
11831 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
11832 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
11833 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11834 Closes ticket 26006.
11836 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
11837 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
11838 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
11839 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
11840 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
11841 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
11843 o Minor features (configuration):
11844 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
11845 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
11846 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
11847 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
11848 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
11850 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11851 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11852 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11853 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11854 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11855 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11857 o Minor features (control port):
11858 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
11859 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
11860 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
11861 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11862 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
11863 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
11864 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
11865 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
11866 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
11867 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
11869 o Minor features (directory authority):
11870 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
11871 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
11872 Closes ticket 23909.
11874 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
11875 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
11876 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
11877 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
11879 o Minor features (entry guards):
11880 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
11881 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
11883 o Minor features (geoip):
11884 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11885 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11887 o Minor features (performance):
11888 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
11889 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
11890 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
11891 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
11893 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
11894 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
11896 o Minor features (testing):
11897 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
11898 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
11899 more deterministic.
11900 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
11901 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
11902 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
11903 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
11904 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
11905 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
11907 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
11908 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
11909 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
11910 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
11911 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
11913 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
11914 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
11915 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
11916 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
11917 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
11918 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
11920 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11921 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
11922 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
11923 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
11925 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
11926 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11927 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11928 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11929 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11932 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11933 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11934 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11937 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
11938 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
11939 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11940 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
11941 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
11943 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
11944 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
11945 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
11946 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
11947 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11949 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11950 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
11951 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
11952 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
11953 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11955 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
11956 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
11957 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
11958 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
11959 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11961 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11962 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
11963 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11964 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
11965 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
11966 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
11969 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11970 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11971 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11972 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11973 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11976 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
11977 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
11978 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
11979 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
11980 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
11981 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
11982 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
11984 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11985 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11986 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11988 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
11989 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11990 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11991 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11992 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11993 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11994 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11996 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11997 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
11998 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
11999 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
12000 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
12001 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12003 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12004 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
12005 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
12008 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
12009 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
12010 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
12011 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12013 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
12014 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
12015 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
12016 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
12017 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
12018 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
12019 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12021 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
12022 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
12023 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12025 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
12026 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
12027 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
12028 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12030 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12031 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
12032 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
12033 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
12034 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
12035 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12036 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
12037 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
12039 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
12040 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
12041 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12042 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
12043 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
12044 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
12045 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
12047 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
12048 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
12049 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
12050 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
12051 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
12053 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
12054 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
12055 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
12058 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
12059 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
12060 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
12061 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
12062 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
12063 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12065 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12066 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
12067 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
12068 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12069 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
12070 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
12071 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
12072 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
12074 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
12075 confusing we renamed some functions and
12076 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
12077 router_should_check_reachability() and
12078 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
12079 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
12080 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
12081 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
12082 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
12084 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
12085 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
12087 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
12088 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
12089 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12090 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
12091 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
12092 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
12093 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
12094 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
12095 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
12096 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
12097 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
12098 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
12099 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
12100 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
12101 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
12102 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12103 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
12104 Closes ticket 25766.
12105 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
12106 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
12107 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
12108 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
12109 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
12110 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12111 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
12112 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
12113 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
12114 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
12115 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12116 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
12117 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
12118 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
12120 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
12121 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
12122 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
12123 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
12124 before. Closes ticket 26016.
12125 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
12126 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
12127 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
12128 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
12130 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
12131 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
12132 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
12133 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12135 o Deprecated features:
12136 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
12137 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
12138 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
12139 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
12140 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
12141 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
12144 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
12145 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
12147 o Removed features:
12148 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
12149 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
12150 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
12151 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
12152 24378 and proposal 290.
12153 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
12154 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
12155 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
12156 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
12157 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
12158 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
12159 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
12160 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
12161 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
12162 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
12163 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
12164 their local router. Closes 25409.
12165 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
12166 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
12167 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
12168 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
12169 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
12170 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
12171 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
12172 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
12173 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
12174 Closes ticket 25268.
12177 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
12178 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
12179 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
12181 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
12182 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
12183 be nearly identical to this one.
12185 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
12186 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12187 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12188 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
12189 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
12190 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12192 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
12193 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
12194 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
12195 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
12196 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
12197 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
12198 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
12200 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
12201 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
12202 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
12204 o Minor features (config options):
12205 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
12206 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
12207 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
12210 o Minor features (geoip):
12211 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12212 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
12214 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12215 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
12216 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
12217 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
12218 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
12219 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12221 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12222 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
12223 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
12224 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12226 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
12227 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
12228 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
12229 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12230 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
12231 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
12232 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12234 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12235 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
12236 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
12237 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
12238 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12239 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
12240 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12242 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
12243 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
12244 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
12245 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
12246 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
12248 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12249 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
12250 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
12252 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
12253 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
12254 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
12256 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12257 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
12258 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
12260 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
12261 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
12262 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
12266 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
12267 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
12268 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
12269 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
12271 o New system requirements:
12272 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
12273 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
12275 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
12276 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
12277 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
12278 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
12279 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12281 o Minor features (geoip):
12282 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12283 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
12285 o Minor features (log messages):
12286 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
12287 information about memory usage from the different compression
12288 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
12290 o Minor features (sandbox):
12291 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
12292 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
12293 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
12295 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12296 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
12297 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
12298 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
12300 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
12301 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
12302 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
12304 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12305 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
12306 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
12307 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
12309 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
12310 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
12311 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
12312 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12314 o Major bugfixes (networking):
12315 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
12316 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
12317 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
12319 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
12320 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
12321 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
12323 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
12324 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
12325 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
12326 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
12327 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
12328 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12330 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12331 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
12332 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
12333 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
12335 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
12336 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
12337 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
12338 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
12340 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
12341 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
12342 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
12343 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
12346 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
12347 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
12348 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
12349 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
12350 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12352 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12353 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
12354 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
12358 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
12360 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
12361 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
12364 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
12365 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
12368 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12369 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12371 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12372 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12374 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12377 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12378 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
12379 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12381 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
12382 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
12383 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
12384 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
12387 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12388 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12389 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12390 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12393 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12394 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12395 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12396 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12397 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12398 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12399 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12400 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12401 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12402 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12403 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12404 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12405 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12407 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12408 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12409 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12411 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12412 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12413 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12414 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12415 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12416 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12417 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12419 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12420 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12421 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12423 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12424 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12425 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12426 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12427 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12428 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12429 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12431 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12432 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12433 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12434 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12436 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12437 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12438 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12439 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12441 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12442 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12443 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12444 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12445 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12446 Closes ticket 24978.
12448 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12449 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12450 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12451 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12452 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12453 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12454 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12455 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12456 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12458 o Minor features (geoip):
12459 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12462 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12463 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12464 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12465 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12466 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12468 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12469 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12470 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12471 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12472 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12474 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12475 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12476 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12477 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12478 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12481 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12482 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12483 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12484 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12485 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12486 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12487 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12488 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12489 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12490 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12491 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12494 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
12495 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12496 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12498 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12499 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12500 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12503 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12504 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12505 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12506 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12507 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12508 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12509 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12511 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12512 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12513 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12514 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12515 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12516 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12517 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12518 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12519 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12522 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12523 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12524 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12525 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12526 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12527 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12529 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12530 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12531 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12532 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12534 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
12535 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12536 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12537 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12538 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12541 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12542 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12543 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12544 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12545 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12546 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12548 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12549 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12550 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12551 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12552 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12553 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12554 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12555 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12556 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12557 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12558 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12559 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12561 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12562 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12563 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12564 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12566 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12567 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12568 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12569 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12571 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12572 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12573 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12574 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12577 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
12578 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12579 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12580 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
12581 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
12583 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12584 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12586 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12587 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12589 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12590 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12591 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12594 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
12595 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12596 later Tor releases.
12598 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12599 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12601 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12602 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12604 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12607 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12608 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
12609 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12611 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12612 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12613 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12614 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12617 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
12618 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12619 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12620 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12621 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12622 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12623 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12624 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12625 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12626 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12627 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12628 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12629 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12631 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12632 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12633 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12634 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12635 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12636 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12637 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12638 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12639 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12641 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
12642 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12643 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12644 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12645 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12646 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12647 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12649 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
12650 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12651 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12652 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12654 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12655 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12656 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12657 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12658 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12659 Closes ticket 24978.
12661 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
12662 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12663 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12664 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12666 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12667 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12668 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12669 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12670 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12671 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12672 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12673 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12674 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12676 o Minor features (geoip):
12677 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12680 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12681 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12682 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12684 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
12685 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12686 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12687 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12688 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12690 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
12691 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12692 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12693 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12694 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12696 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12697 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12698 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12699 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12700 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12703 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12704 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12705 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12707 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12708 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12709 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12712 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12713 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12714 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12715 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12716 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12717 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12718 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12720 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12721 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12722 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12723 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12724 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12727 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12728 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12729 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12730 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12731 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12732 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12734 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
12735 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12736 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12737 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12739 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12740 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12741 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12742 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12743 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12744 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12745 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12746 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12747 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12748 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12749 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12750 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12752 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
12753 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12754 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12755 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12758 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12759 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12760 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12761 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
12762 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
12764 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12765 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12767 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12768 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12771 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
12772 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
12773 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
12776 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12777 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12779 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
12780 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
12781 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
12782 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
12783 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
12784 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
12787 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12788 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12790 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12793 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
12794 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
12795 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
12796 the DoS mitigations.)
12798 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12799 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12800 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12801 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12804 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12805 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
12806 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
12807 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12809 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12810 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12811 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12812 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12813 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12814 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12815 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12816 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12817 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12818 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12819 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12820 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12821 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12823 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12824 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12825 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12826 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12827 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12828 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12829 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12830 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
12831 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
12832 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
12833 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12835 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12836 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12837 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12839 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12840 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12841 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12842 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12843 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12844 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12845 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12847 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12848 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
12849 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
12850 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12852 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12853 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12854 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12855 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12857 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12858 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12859 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12860 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12861 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12862 Closes ticket 24978.
12864 o Minor features (geoip):
12865 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12868 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12869 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
12870 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
12873 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12874 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12875 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12876 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12877 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12879 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12880 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12881 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12882 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12883 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12884 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12885 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12887 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12888 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12889 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12890 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12891 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12893 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12894 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
12895 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
12896 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12898 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12899 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
12900 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
12901 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
12902 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12904 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12905 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12906 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12907 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12909 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12910 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12911 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12912 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12914 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12915 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12916 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12917 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12919 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12920 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12922 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12923 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12925 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12926 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
12927 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
12929 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12930 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
12931 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
12932 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
12933 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12935 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12936 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12937 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12939 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
12940 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
12941 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
12945 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
12946 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
12947 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12948 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12950 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
12951 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
12952 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
12953 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
12954 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
12955 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12957 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12960 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
12961 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
12962 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
12963 the DoS mitigations.)
12965 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
12966 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12967 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12968 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12971 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12972 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12973 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12974 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12975 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12976 Closes ticket 24978.
12978 o Minor features (logging):
12979 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
12980 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
12982 o Minor features (testing):
12983 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
12986 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
12987 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12988 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12989 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12990 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12991 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12992 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12994 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
12995 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
12996 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
12997 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12998 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
12999 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
13002 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
13003 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
13004 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
13005 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
13007 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13008 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
13009 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
13010 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
13011 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
13014 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
13015 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13017 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13018 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13020 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
13021 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
13022 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13023 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
13025 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13026 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13027 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13030 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
13031 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
13032 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
13033 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
13034 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
13035 it to older supported release series.
13037 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
13038 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13039 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13040 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13041 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13042 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13043 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13044 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13045 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13046 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13047 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13048 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13049 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13051 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
13052 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
13053 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
13054 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
13055 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
13056 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
13057 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
13058 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13060 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
13061 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13062 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13064 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
13065 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13066 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13067 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13069 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
13070 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13071 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13072 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13074 o Minor features (directory authority):
13075 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
13076 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
13078 o Minor features (geoip):
13079 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13082 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
13083 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13084 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
13087 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
13088 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13089 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13090 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13091 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13093 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
13094 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13095 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13096 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13097 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13099 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
13100 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
13101 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
13102 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
13104 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
13105 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
13106 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
13107 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
13108 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13110 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13111 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
13112 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
13113 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13115 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13116 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13117 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13118 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13119 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
13120 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
13121 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13123 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13124 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13125 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13126 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13127 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13128 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
13129 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
13130 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13132 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13133 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
13134 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
13135 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
13136 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
13137 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
13138 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13140 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
13141 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
13142 would call the Rust implementation of
13143 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
13144 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
13145 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
13146 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
13147 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13149 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13150 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13151 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
13154 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
13155 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
13156 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
13157 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
13158 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
13159 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13161 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
13162 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13163 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13164 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13165 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13167 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13168 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
13170 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
13171 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
13172 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
13175 o Documentation (man page):
13176 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
13177 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
13181 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
13182 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
13183 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
13184 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
13185 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
13186 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
13189 o Major features (embedding):
13190 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
13191 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
13192 Closes ticket 23684.
13193 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
13194 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
13195 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
13196 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
13197 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
13198 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
13200 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
13201 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
13202 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
13203 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
13204 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
13205 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
13206 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
13207 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
13208 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
13209 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
13210 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
13213 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
13214 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
13215 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
13216 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
13217 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
13218 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
13219 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
13221 o Major features (onion services):
13222 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
13223 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
13224 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
13225 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
13226 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
13229 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
13230 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
13231 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
13232 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
13233 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
13234 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
13235 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
13236 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
13238 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
13239 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
13240 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
13241 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
13242 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
13244 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
13245 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
13246 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
13247 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
13248 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
13249 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
13250 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
13252 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
13253 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13254 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13255 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13256 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13257 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13258 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13259 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13260 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13261 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13262 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13264 o Major bugfixes (relays):
13265 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13266 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13267 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13268 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13269 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13270 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13272 o Minor feature (IPv6):
13273 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
13274 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
13275 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
13276 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
13277 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
13278 Implements ticket 23827.
13280 o Minor features (cleanup):
13281 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
13282 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
13284 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13285 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
13286 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
13287 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
13288 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
13289 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
13290 once. Part of ticket 24337.
13291 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
13292 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
13293 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
13295 o Minor features (embedding):
13296 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
13297 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
13298 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
13299 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
13300 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
13301 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
13302 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
13303 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
13304 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
13305 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
13306 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
13307 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
13308 Closes ticket 23848.
13309 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
13310 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
13311 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
13313 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13314 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
13315 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
13316 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
13317 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
13318 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
13319 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
13320 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
13323 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
13324 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
13325 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
13326 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
13327 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
13328 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
13329 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
13331 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
13332 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
13333 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
13334 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
13335 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
13336 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
13337 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
13338 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
13339 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
13340 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
13341 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
13342 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
13344 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
13345 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
13346 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
13348 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
13349 Implements ticket 24791.
13351 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
13352 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
13353 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
13354 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
13355 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
13356 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
13358 o Minor features (heartbeat):
13359 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
13360 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
13363 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
13364 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
13365 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
13366 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
13367 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
13369 o Minor features (log messages):
13370 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
13371 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
13372 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
13373 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
13375 o Minor features (logging, android):
13376 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
13379 o Minor features (performance):
13380 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
13381 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
13382 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
13383 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
13385 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
13386 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13387 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
13388 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
13389 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13390 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
13391 Implements ticket 24374.
13393 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
13394 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
13395 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
13396 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
13397 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
13399 o Minor features (performance, windows):
13400 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
13401 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
13402 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
13405 o Major features (relay):
13406 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
13407 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
13408 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
13409 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
13410 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
13412 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
13413 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
13414 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
13415 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
13416 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
13417 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
13418 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
13419 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
13420 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
13422 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
13423 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
13424 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
13425 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13427 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
13428 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
13429 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
13430 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
13431 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13432 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13433 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13434 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
13435 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
13436 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
13437 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
13438 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
13441 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
13442 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
13443 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
13444 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
13447 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
13448 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
13449 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
13452 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
13453 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
13454 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
13456 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
13457 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13458 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
13459 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
13460 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
13462 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
13463 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13464 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
13465 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13467 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
13468 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
13469 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13470 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
13471 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
13472 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13474 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13475 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
13476 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
13477 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13479 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13480 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
13481 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
13482 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
13483 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13484 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
13487 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
13488 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13489 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13490 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13492 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
13493 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13494 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13495 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13497 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
13498 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
13499 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
13500 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
13501 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
13502 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13503 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
13504 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
13505 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
13506 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
13507 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
13508 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13510 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13511 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
13512 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13513 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13514 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13516 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13517 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
13519 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
13520 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
13521 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
13522 "aruna1234" and teor.
13523 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
13524 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
13525 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
13526 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
13528 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
13529 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
13530 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
13531 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
13532 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
13533 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
13534 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
13535 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
13536 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
13537 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
13539 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
13540 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
13543 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
13544 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
13546 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
13547 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
13548 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
13549 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
13550 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13551 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13554 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
13555 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
13556 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
13557 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
13558 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
13560 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
13561 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
13562 adding very little except for unit test.
13564 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
13565 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
13566 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
13567 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
13569 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
13570 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
13571 const. Implements ticket 24489.
13574 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
13575 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
13577 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
13578 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
13579 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
13580 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
13581 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
13582 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
13584 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13585 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13586 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13587 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13588 with the 0.2.9 series.
13590 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
13591 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13593 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
13594 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
13595 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
13596 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
13597 information. Closes ticket 24801.
13598 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
13599 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
13600 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
13601 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
13603 o Minor features (geoip):
13604 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13607 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
13608 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
13609 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
13610 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
13611 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
13614 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13615 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
13616 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13618 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13619 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13620 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13621 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13625 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
13626 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
13627 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
13628 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
13629 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
13630 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
13631 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
13633 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
13634 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
13635 will be nearly identical to this.
13637 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
13638 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
13639 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
13640 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
13641 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
13642 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
13643 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13645 o Minor features (geoip):
13646 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13649 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
13650 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
13651 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
13652 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13654 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
13655 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13656 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13657 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13658 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13661 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13662 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
13663 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
13664 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
13665 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
13666 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13669 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
13670 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
13671 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
13673 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
13674 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
13675 be nearly identical to this.
13677 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
13678 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
13679 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
13680 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
13681 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
13682 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
13683 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13685 o Minor features (logging):
13686 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
13689 o Minor features (portability):
13690 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
13691 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
13694 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
13695 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
13696 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
13697 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
13698 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13699 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
13700 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
13701 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
13702 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13703 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
13704 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
13705 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
13706 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13708 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13709 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
13710 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
13712 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13713 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
13714 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
13715 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
13716 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
13717 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
13718 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
13721 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
13722 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
13723 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
13724 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
13725 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
13726 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
13727 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13729 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13730 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
13731 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
13732 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
13733 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
13734 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
13735 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
13736 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13737 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
13738 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
13739 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13742 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
13743 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
13744 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
13745 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
13748 o Major bugfixes (security):
13749 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13750 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13751 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13752 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13753 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13754 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13755 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13756 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13757 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13758 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13760 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13761 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13762 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13763 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13764 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13765 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13766 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13769 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
13770 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13771 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13772 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13773 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13775 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
13776 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13777 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13778 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13779 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13780 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13781 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13782 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13783 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13785 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
13786 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
13787 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
13788 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
13790 o Minor features (directory authority):
13791 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13794 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13795 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
13796 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
13797 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13800 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
13801 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
13802 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
13803 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
13805 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13806 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13807 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13808 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13809 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13810 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13811 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13812 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13813 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13814 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13815 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13817 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13818 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13819 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13820 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13821 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13822 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13823 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13826 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13827 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13828 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13829 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13830 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13832 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13833 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13834 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13835 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13836 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13837 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13838 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13839 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13840 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13842 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13843 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13844 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13845 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13846 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13847 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13850 o Minor features (bridge):
13851 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13852 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13853 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13854 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13857 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13858 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13861 o Minor features (geoip):
13862 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13865 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13866 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13867 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13868 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13869 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13871 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13872 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13873 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13875 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13876 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13877 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13878 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13879 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13880 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13882 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
13883 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
13884 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
13887 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13888 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13889 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13890 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13891 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13894 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
13895 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13896 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13897 to another of the releases coming out today.
13899 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13900 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13901 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13903 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13904 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13905 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13906 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13907 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13908 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13909 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13910 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13911 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13912 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13913 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13915 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13916 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13917 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13918 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13919 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13920 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13921 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13924 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13925 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13926 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13927 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13928 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13930 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13931 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13932 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13933 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13934 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13935 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13936 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13937 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13938 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13940 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13941 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13942 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13943 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13944 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13945 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13948 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13949 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13950 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13951 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13952 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13953 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13955 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13956 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13957 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13958 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13959 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13962 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13963 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13966 o Minor features (geoip):
13967 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13970 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13971 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13972 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13973 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13974 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13976 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13977 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13978 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13980 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13981 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13982 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13983 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13984 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13985 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13987 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13988 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13989 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13990 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13991 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13993 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13994 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13995 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13998 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
13999 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14000 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14001 to another of the releases coming out today.
14003 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14004 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14005 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14006 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14007 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14008 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14011 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14012 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14013 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14014 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14015 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14016 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14017 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14018 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14019 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14020 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14021 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14023 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14024 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14025 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14026 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14027 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14028 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14029 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14032 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14033 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14034 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14035 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14036 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14038 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14039 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14040 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14041 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14042 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14043 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14045 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14046 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14047 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14048 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14049 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14052 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14053 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14056 o Minor features (geoip):
14057 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14060 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14061 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14062 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14063 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14064 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14065 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14067 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14068 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14069 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14070 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14071 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14073 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14074 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14075 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14077 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14078 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14079 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14080 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14081 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14082 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14084 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14085 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14086 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14087 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14088 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14090 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14091 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14092 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14095 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
14096 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14097 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14098 to another of the releases coming out today.
14100 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14101 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
14102 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14104 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14105 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14106 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14107 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14108 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14109 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14110 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14111 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14112 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14113 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14114 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14115 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14116 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14117 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14118 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14121 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14122 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14123 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14124 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14125 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14127 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14128 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
14129 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
14130 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
14131 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
14134 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14135 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14136 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14137 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14138 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14141 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14142 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14145 o Minor features (geoip):
14146 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14149 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14150 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14151 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14154 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
14155 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14156 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14157 to another of the releases coming out today.
14159 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14160 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14161 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14163 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14164 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14165 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14166 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14167 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14168 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14169 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14170 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14171 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14172 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14173 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14174 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14175 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14176 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14177 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14180 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14181 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14182 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14183 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14184 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14185 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14187 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14188 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14189 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14190 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14191 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14194 o Minor features (geoip):
14195 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14199 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
14200 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14201 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
14202 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
14203 since the 0.3.0.x series.
14205 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
14206 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
14209 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14210 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
14211 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
14212 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
14213 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
14214 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
14215 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
14216 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
14217 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
14218 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
14219 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
14222 o Minor features (directory authority):
14223 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
14224 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
14225 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
14226 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
14228 o Minor features (geoip):
14229 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14232 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14233 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
14234 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
14236 o Minor features (logging):
14237 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
14238 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
14240 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
14241 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
14243 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14244 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
14245 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
14246 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14247 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
14248 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
14249 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
14250 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14252 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14253 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
14254 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
14257 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
14258 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
14259 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
14260 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14262 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
14263 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
14264 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14265 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
14266 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
14267 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
14268 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
14269 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
14270 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
14273 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14274 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
14275 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14276 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
14277 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
14278 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
14279 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14281 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
14282 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
14283 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
14284 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
14285 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
14286 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14288 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14289 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
14290 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
14291 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
14292 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14293 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14294 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14296 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
14297 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
14298 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14300 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14301 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
14302 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
14303 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
14304 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
14305 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
14306 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
14307 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
14310 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
14311 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
14312 section. Closes ticket 24254.
14315 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
14316 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
14317 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
14318 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
14321 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
14322 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14323 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14324 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14325 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14326 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14329 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
14330 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
14331 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
14332 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
14333 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14335 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
14336 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
14337 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
14338 Closes ticket 23753.
14340 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
14341 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
14342 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
14343 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
14344 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
14346 o Minor features (testing):
14347 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
14348 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
14350 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
14351 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
14352 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
14353 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
14354 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14356 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
14357 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
14358 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
14359 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
14360 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
14363 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14364 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
14365 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
14366 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
14367 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14369 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
14370 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
14371 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
14372 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14374 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14375 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
14376 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
14378 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
14379 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14380 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
14382 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14383 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
14384 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
14385 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14386 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
14387 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14389 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
14390 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
14391 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
14392 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
14393 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
14394 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
14395 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14396 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
14397 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
14398 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14399 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
14400 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14402 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
14403 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14404 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14405 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14406 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14408 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14409 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
14410 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14411 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
14412 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
14413 Closes ticket 24109.
14416 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
14417 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
14418 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
14419 directory authority, Bastet.
14421 o Directory authority changes:
14422 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14423 Closes ticket 23910.
14424 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14425 Closes ticket 23592.
14427 o Minor features (bridge):
14428 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
14429 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
14430 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
14431 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
14432 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
14433 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
14434 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
14436 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
14437 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
14438 Resolves ticket 23670.
14440 o Minor features (geoip):
14441 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14444 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
14445 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
14446 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
14447 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14449 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14450 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
14451 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14453 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
14454 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
14455 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
14456 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
14457 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
14458 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14460 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
14461 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
14462 only fetch the service descriptor once.
14463 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
14464 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
14465 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14467 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14468 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
14469 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
14470 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
14472 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
14473 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
14474 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14476 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
14477 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
14478 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
14479 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
14480 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
14482 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
14483 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
14484 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14486 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14487 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
14488 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
14491 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14492 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
14493 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14494 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
14495 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14496 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
14497 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
14498 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
14500 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
14501 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
14502 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14503 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
14504 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
14507 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
14508 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
14509 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
14510 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
14511 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
14515 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
14516 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14517 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14519 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14520 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14521 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14523 o Directory authority changes:
14524 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14525 Closes ticket 23910.
14526 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14527 Closes ticket 23592.
14529 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14530 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14531 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14532 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14533 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14535 o Minor features (geoip):
14536 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14539 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14540 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14541 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14542 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14543 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14544 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14545 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14546 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14547 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14549 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14550 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14551 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14552 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14553 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14554 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14555 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14556 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14557 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14560 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
14561 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14562 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14563 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14565 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14566 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14567 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14569 o Directory authority changes:
14570 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14571 Closes ticket 23910.
14572 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14573 Closes ticket 23592.
14575 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14576 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14577 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14578 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14580 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14581 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14582 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14583 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14584 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14586 o Minor features (geoip):
14587 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14591 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
14592 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14593 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14594 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14596 o Directory authority changes:
14597 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14598 Closes ticket 23910.
14599 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14600 Closes ticket 23592.
14602 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14603 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14604 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14605 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14607 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14608 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14609 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14610 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14611 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14613 o Minor features (geoip):
14614 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14617 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14618 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14619 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14620 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14621 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14622 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14623 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14624 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14627 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14628 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14629 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14631 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14632 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14633 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14634 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14635 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14636 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14637 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14640 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
14641 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14642 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14643 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14645 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14646 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14647 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14649 o Directory authority changes:
14650 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14651 Closes ticket 23910.
14652 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14653 Closes ticket 23592.
14655 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14656 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14657 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14658 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14660 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14661 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14662 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14663 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14664 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14666 o Minor features (geoip):
14667 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14670 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14671 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14672 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14673 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14674 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14675 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14676 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14677 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14680 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14681 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14682 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14683 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14685 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14686 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14687 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14689 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14690 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14691 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14692 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14693 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14694 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14695 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14698 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
14699 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
14700 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
14701 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
14702 a new directory authority, Bastet.
14704 o Directory authority changes:
14705 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14706 Closes ticket 23910.
14707 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14708 Closes ticket 23592.
14710 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14711 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14712 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14713 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14715 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14716 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14717 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14718 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14719 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14721 o Minor features (geoip):
14722 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14725 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14726 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
14727 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14728 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
14730 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14731 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
14732 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
14735 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14736 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
14737 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
14739 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14740 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14741 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14742 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14744 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14745 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14746 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14748 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14749 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
14750 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
14754 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
14755 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
14756 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
14757 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
14758 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
14759 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
14761 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
14762 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
14763 include better testing and logging.
14765 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
14768 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
14769 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14770 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14771 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14773 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14774 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
14775 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
14776 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
14777 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
14778 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
14779 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14781 o Minor features (build, compilation):
14782 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
14783 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
14784 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
14785 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
14786 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
14787 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
14788 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
14789 Closes ticket 23643.
14791 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14792 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14793 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14794 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14795 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14797 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
14798 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
14799 the circuit identifier(s).
14800 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
14801 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
14803 o Minor features (logging):
14804 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
14805 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
14806 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
14807 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
14808 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
14810 o Minor features (relay):
14811 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
14812 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
14813 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
14814 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
14816 o Minor features (robustness):
14817 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
14818 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
14820 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
14821 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
14822 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
14823 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
14824 related to ticket 23080.
14826 o Minor features (testing):
14827 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
14828 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
14831 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14832 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
14833 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
14835 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
14836 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
14839 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
14840 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
14841 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14842 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
14843 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
14844 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
14845 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
14846 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
14847 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14849 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
14850 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
14851 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
14854 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14855 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
14856 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
14857 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14859 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
14860 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
14861 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
14862 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
14863 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14864 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
14865 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
14866 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
14869 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
14870 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14871 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14872 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14874 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
14875 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14876 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14877 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14878 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14879 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14881 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
14882 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
14883 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
14884 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14885 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
14886 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
14887 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14888 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
14889 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14890 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
14891 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
14893 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
14894 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
14895 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
14896 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14897 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
14898 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14900 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14901 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
14902 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
14904 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
14905 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
14907 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
14908 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
14909 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14911 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14912 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
14913 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
14916 o Deprecated features:
14917 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
14918 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
14919 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
14922 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
14923 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14924 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
14925 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
14926 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
14927 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
14928 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
14929 Closes ticket 18736.
14932 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
14933 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14934 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
14935 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
14936 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
14937 features and bugfixes here.
14939 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
14941 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
14942 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
14943 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
14944 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
14945 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
14946 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
14947 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
14948 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
14949 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
14950 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
14951 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
14952 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
14954 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
14955 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
14956 more information, see the design paper at
14957 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
14958 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
14959 Closes ticket 12541.
14961 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
14962 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
14963 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
14964 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
14965 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
14966 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
14969 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
14970 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
14972 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
14975 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
14978 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
14980 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
14982 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
14984 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
14985 they are 56 characters long, as in
14986 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
14988 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
14989 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
14990 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
14991 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
14992 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
14995 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
14996 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
14997 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
14998 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
14999 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
15000 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
15003 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
15004 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
15005 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
15006 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
15008 o Minor features (bug detection):
15009 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
15010 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
15011 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
15013 o Minor features (client):
15014 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
15015 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
15016 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
15017 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
15018 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
15019 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
15020 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
15021 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
15022 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
15023 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
15025 o Minor features (command line):
15026 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
15027 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
15028 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
15030 o Minor features (control port):
15031 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
15032 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
15033 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
15035 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
15036 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
15038 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
15039 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
15040 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
15041 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
15042 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
15043 Closes ticket 23237.
15044 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
15045 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
15047 o Minor features (development support):
15048 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
15049 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
15050 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
15051 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
15052 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
15053 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
15055 o Minor features (ed25519):
15056 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
15057 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
15058 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
15060 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
15061 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
15062 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
15064 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
15065 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
15066 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
15067 another program, regardless of the settings of
15068 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
15069 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
15070 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
15072 o Minor features (logging):
15073 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
15074 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
15075 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
15077 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
15078 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
15080 o Minor features (portability):
15081 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
15082 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
15083 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
15084 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
15086 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
15087 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
15088 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
15089 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
15090 results. Closes ticket 22731.
15092 o Minor features (startup, safety):
15093 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
15094 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
15097 o Minor features (static analysis):
15098 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
15099 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
15102 o Minor features (testing):
15103 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
15104 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
15105 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
15106 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
15107 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
15109 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
15110 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
15111 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
15112 Coverity as CID 1415728.
15114 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
15115 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
15116 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
15117 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
15118 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
15119 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
15120 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
15121 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15123 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15124 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
15125 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
15126 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
15127 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15128 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
15129 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
15130 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15132 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15133 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
15134 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15136 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
15137 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
15138 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
15139 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15141 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
15142 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
15143 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
15144 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
15145 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
15146 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
15148 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
15149 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
15152 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
15153 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
15154 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
15155 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15157 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
15158 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
15159 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
15160 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
15161 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
15162 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
15163 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
15166 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
15167 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
15168 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
15169 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15171 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
15172 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
15173 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15175 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15176 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
15177 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
15178 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15179 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
15180 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
15182 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
15183 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
15184 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
15186 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
15187 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
15188 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
15190 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
15191 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
15192 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
15193 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
15195 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15196 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
15197 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15199 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15200 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
15201 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
15202 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
15203 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
15204 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
15205 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
15206 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15208 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15209 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
15210 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
15211 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15212 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
15213 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
15214 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15216 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
15217 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
15218 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
15219 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15221 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15222 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
15223 function from the general code to handle channel state
15224 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
15225 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
15226 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
15227 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
15228 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
15229 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
15230 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
15231 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
15233 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
15234 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
15236 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
15237 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
15238 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
15239 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
15240 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
15241 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
15242 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
15243 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
15244 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
15245 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
15246 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
15247 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
15249 o Deprecated features:
15250 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
15251 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
15252 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
15256 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
15257 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
15258 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
15259 Closes ticket 15645.
15260 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
15261 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
15262 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
15263 file. Closes ticket 21148.
15265 o Removed features:
15266 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
15267 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
15268 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
15269 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
15270 Closes ticket 21031.
15271 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
15272 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
15275 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
15276 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15279 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15280 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15281 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15282 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15284 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
15285 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
15286 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
15287 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
15289 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15290 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15291 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15292 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15293 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15296 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15299 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15300 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15301 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15304 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15305 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15306 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15307 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15308 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15309 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15310 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15311 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15312 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15314 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15315 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15316 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15317 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15318 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15319 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15320 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15321 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15322 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15325 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
15326 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15329 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15330 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15331 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15332 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15334 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15335 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
15336 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
15337 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
15338 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
15339 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
15340 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
15342 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15343 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
15344 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
15345 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15347 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15348 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
15349 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15351 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15352 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15353 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15354 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15356 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15357 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15358 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15359 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15360 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15362 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15363 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15364 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15365 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15367 o Minor features (geoip):
15368 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15371 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15372 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15373 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15374 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15376 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15377 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15378 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15379 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
15380 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15381 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
15382 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
15383 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15385 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15386 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
15387 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15389 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15390 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15391 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15394 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15395 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15396 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15397 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
15398 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15400 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15401 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15402 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15403 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15404 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15405 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15407 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15408 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15409 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15410 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15411 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15412 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15413 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15414 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15415 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15417 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15418 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15419 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15420 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15422 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15423 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15424 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15426 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15427 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15428 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15429 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15430 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15432 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15433 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15434 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15437 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15438 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15439 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15440 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15441 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15443 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15444 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15445 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15446 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15447 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15448 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15449 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15450 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15451 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15454 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
15455 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
15458 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15459 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15460 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15461 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15463 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15464 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15465 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15466 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15472 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15473 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15474 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15476 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15477 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15478 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15479 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15480 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15482 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15483 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15484 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15485 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15487 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15488 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15489 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15491 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15492 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15493 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15494 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15497 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
15498 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
15500 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
15501 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
15502 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
15503 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
15504 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
15505 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
15506 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
15508 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
15509 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
15510 disabled. For more information, see
15511 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15513 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
15514 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
15515 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
15516 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
15517 with the 0.2.9 series.
15519 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
15520 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15522 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
15523 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
15524 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
15525 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
15526 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
15528 o Minor features (defensive programming):
15529 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
15530 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
15531 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
15534 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15535 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
15536 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
15537 attempt for bug 23105.
15539 o Minor features (geoip):
15540 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15543 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15544 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15545 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15547 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15548 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15549 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15550 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15551 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15553 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15554 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
15555 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
15556 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15558 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15559 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
15560 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
15564 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
15565 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
15566 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
15567 Windows directory caches.
15569 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
15570 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
15571 will be nearly identical to it.
15573 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
15574 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
15575 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
15576 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
15577 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
15578 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15580 o Minor features (directory authority):
15581 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
15582 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
15583 Closes ticket 22348.
15585 o Minor features (geoip):
15586 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15589 o Minor features (testing):
15590 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
15593 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
15594 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
15595 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15597 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15598 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
15599 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
15600 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
15601 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
15602 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
15603 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
15604 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
15605 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
15606 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15608 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
15609 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15610 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15612 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15613 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15614 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15615 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15617 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15618 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
15619 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
15620 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
15621 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15623 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
15624 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
15625 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
15626 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
15627 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
15628 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15630 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
15631 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
15632 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15633 with the clang static analyzer.
15635 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15636 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
15637 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
15638 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
15639 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
15642 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
15643 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15644 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15645 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15646 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15647 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15648 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15651 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
15652 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
15653 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
15654 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
15656 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15657 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15658 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15659 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15660 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15661 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15662 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15663 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15664 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15666 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15667 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15668 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15669 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15671 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15672 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15673 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15674 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15675 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15677 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15678 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15681 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
15682 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15683 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15684 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15686 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15687 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15688 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15689 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
15690 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15691 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
15692 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
15693 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
15696 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15697 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15698 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15701 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15702 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15703 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15704 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15705 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15706 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15708 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15709 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
15710 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
15711 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15713 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15714 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15715 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15717 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
15718 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
15719 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15722 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
15723 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
15724 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
15725 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
15726 next version will be a release candidate.
15728 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
15729 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
15730 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
15731 one of those versions should upgrade.
15733 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
15734 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15735 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15736 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15737 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15738 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15739 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15740 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15741 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15743 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
15744 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15745 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15746 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15747 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15749 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
15750 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
15751 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
15752 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
15753 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
15754 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15756 o Minor features (bridge authority):
15757 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
15758 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
15760 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
15761 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
15762 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
15763 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
15764 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
15767 o Minor features (geoip):
15768 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15771 o Minor features (relay, performance):
15772 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
15773 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
15774 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
15775 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
15776 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
15779 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
15780 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
15781 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
15782 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
15783 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
15785 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
15786 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
15787 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
15788 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
15789 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15791 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
15792 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
15793 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15794 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
15795 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15796 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
15797 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
15798 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15799 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
15800 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
15801 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
15804 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
15805 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15806 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15807 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15808 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15809 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15811 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15812 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
15813 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
15814 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
15815 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
15816 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
15817 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
15818 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
15821 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
15822 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
15823 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
15826 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
15827 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15828 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15829 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15831 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15832 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15833 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15835 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
15836 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
15837 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
15838 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
15840 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15841 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
15842 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
15843 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
15844 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15845 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
15846 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15849 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
15850 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
15851 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
15852 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
15853 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
15856 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
15857 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
15860 o New dependencies:
15861 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
15862 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
15863 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
15864 close ticket 22623.)
15866 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
15867 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
15868 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
15869 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
15870 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
15871 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
15873 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
15874 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
15875 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
15876 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15878 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
15879 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
15880 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
15881 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
15882 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15884 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15885 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
15886 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
15887 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15889 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
15890 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
15891 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
15892 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
15894 o Minor features (geoip):
15895 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15898 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
15899 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
15900 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
15902 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
15903 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15904 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
15905 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
15906 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
15907 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
15909 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
15910 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
15912 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
15913 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
15914 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
15915 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
15916 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15918 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
15919 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
15920 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
15921 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
15922 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15923 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15924 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15925 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15926 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15927 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15928 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15929 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15931 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15932 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15933 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15934 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15935 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15936 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
15937 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
15938 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
15939 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15941 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15942 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
15943 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
15944 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
15945 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
15946 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
15947 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
15948 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
15949 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
15950 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
15951 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15952 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
15953 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
15954 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
15955 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
15956 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15958 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
15959 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
15960 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
15961 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
15962 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
15963 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
15964 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
15968 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
15970 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
15971 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
15973 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
15974 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
15975 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
15979 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
15980 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
15981 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
15982 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
15983 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
15986 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
15989 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15990 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
15991 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
15992 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
15993 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
15994 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
15996 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15997 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
15998 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
15999 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16001 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16002 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16003 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16004 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16006 o Minor features (geoip):
16007 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16010 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16011 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16012 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16013 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16014 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16016 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16017 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16018 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16019 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16020 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16022 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16023 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16024 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16025 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16026 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16027 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16028 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16029 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16030 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16033 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
16034 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16035 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16036 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16037 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16039 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16040 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16041 bugfixes described below.
16043 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16044 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16045 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16046 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16047 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16048 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16049 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16052 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
16053 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16054 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16055 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16056 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16057 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16058 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16061 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
16062 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16063 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16064 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16065 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16066 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16067 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16068 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16069 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16070 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16071 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16072 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16073 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16076 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
16077 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
16078 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
16080 o Minor features (code style):
16081 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
16082 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
16083 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
16085 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16086 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
16087 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
16088 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
16089 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
16091 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16092 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16093 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16095 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
16096 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
16097 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16099 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
16100 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16101 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16102 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16103 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16104 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16105 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16107 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
16108 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
16109 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
16110 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
16111 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16113 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16114 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
16115 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
16119 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
16122 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
16123 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16124 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16125 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16126 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16128 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16129 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16130 bugfixes described below.
16132 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16133 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16134 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16135 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16136 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16137 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16138 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16139 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16142 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16143 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16144 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16145 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16146 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16147 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16148 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16151 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16152 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16153 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16154 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16155 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16156 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16157 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16158 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16159 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16160 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16161 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16162 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16163 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16166 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16167 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
16168 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
16171 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16172 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16173 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16174 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16175 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16177 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16178 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16179 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16181 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16182 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16183 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16185 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16186 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16187 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16188 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16189 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16190 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16191 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16193 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
16195 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16196 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16197 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16200 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
16201 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16202 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16203 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16204 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16205 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16207 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
16208 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16209 bugfixes described below.
16211 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16212 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16213 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16214 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16215 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16218 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16219 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16220 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16221 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16222 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16223 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16224 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16227 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16228 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16229 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16230 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16231 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16233 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16234 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
16235 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
16236 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
16237 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
16238 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
16239 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
16241 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
16242 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
16243 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
16244 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
16245 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
16247 o Minor features (geoip):
16248 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16251 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
16252 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16253 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16254 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16256 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16257 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16258 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16260 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16261 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
16262 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
16263 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
16264 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
16267 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
16268 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
16269 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16270 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16271 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16273 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
16274 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16275 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16276 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16277 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16278 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16280 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16281 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16282 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16283 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16286 o Minor features (geoip):
16287 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16290 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16291 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16292 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16293 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16294 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16296 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16297 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16298 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16300 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
16301 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16302 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16303 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16304 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16305 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16307 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16308 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16309 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16310 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16313 o Minor features (geoip):
16314 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16317 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16318 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16319 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16322 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
16323 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16324 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16325 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16326 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16327 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16329 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16330 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16331 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16332 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16335 o Minor features (geoip):
16336 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16339 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16340 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16341 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16343 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
16344 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16345 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16346 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16347 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16348 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16350 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16351 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16352 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16353 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16356 o Minor features (geoip):
16357 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16360 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16361 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16362 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16364 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
16365 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16366 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16367 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16368 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16369 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16371 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16372 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16373 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16374 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16377 o Minor features (geoip):
16378 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16381 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16382 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16383 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16386 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
16387 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16388 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
16389 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
16391 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
16392 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
16393 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
16394 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
16395 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16397 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16398 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
16399 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
16402 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
16403 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16404 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16405 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16408 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
16409 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16410 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
16411 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
16412 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
16415 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
16416 security, correctness, and performance.
16418 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
16420 o Major features (directory protocol):
16421 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
16422 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
16423 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
16424 now request these documents when available. When both client and
16425 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
16426 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
16427 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
16428 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
16429 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
16430 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
16431 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
16432 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
16433 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
16434 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
16435 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
16436 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
16437 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
16439 o Major features (experimental):
16440 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
16441 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
16442 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
16443 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
16444 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
16445 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
16446 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
16448 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
16449 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
16450 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
16451 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
16452 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
16453 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
16456 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
16457 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
16458 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
16459 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
16460 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
16461 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
16462 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
16463 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
16464 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
16465 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
16466 multiples of 10000.
16468 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
16469 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
16470 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
16471 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
16472 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
16473 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
16474 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
16475 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
16476 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16477 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
16478 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
16479 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
16480 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
16481 Otherwise it is at info.
16483 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16484 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16485 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16486 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16488 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
16489 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
16490 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16491 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
16493 o Minor features (security, windows):
16494 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
16495 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
16496 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
16497 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
16498 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
16500 o Minor features (config options):
16501 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
16502 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
16503 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
16504 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
16505 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
16506 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
16507 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
16508 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
16510 o Minor features (controller):
16511 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
16512 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
16514 o Minor features (defaults):
16515 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
16516 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
16517 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
16518 can. Closes ticket 21407.
16519 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
16520 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
16521 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
16522 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
16523 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
16524 Closes ticket 21641.
16526 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
16527 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
16528 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
16529 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16530 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16531 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16532 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16534 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
16535 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
16536 introduction points than specified in
16537 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
16538 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
16539 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
16540 21594; closes ticket 21622.
16541 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
16542 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
16543 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
16544 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
16546 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16547 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
16548 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
16549 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
16550 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
16551 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
16552 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
16553 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
16554 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
16555 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
16557 o Minor features (logging):
16558 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
16559 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
16560 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
16561 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
16564 o Minor features (performance):
16565 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
16566 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
16568 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
16569 speed some controller functions.
16571 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
16572 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
16573 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
16574 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
16576 o Minor features (safety):
16577 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
16578 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
16579 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
16582 o Minor features (testing):
16583 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
16584 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
16585 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
16586 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
16587 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
16588 on. Closes ticket 21439.
16589 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
16590 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
16591 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
16592 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
16593 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
16594 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
16595 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
16596 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
16597 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
16598 21507. Partially implements 21470.
16600 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
16601 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
16602 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
16603 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
16605 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16606 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
16607 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
16608 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
16611 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16612 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16613 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16615 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
16616 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
16617 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
16618 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
16619 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
16620 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
16621 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16622 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
16623 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
16624 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
16625 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
16626 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
16627 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
16628 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
16630 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16631 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
16632 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16633 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
16634 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
16635 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
16636 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
16637 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16639 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16640 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
16641 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
16642 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16643 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
16644 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
16645 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
16647 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
16648 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
16649 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
16650 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
16651 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
16653 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16654 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
16655 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16656 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
16657 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
16658 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16659 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
16660 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16661 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
16662 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
16663 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16665 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16666 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
16667 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
16668 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16669 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
16670 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
16671 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16673 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16674 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
16675 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16677 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
16678 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
16679 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
16680 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
16681 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16683 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16684 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
16685 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
16686 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16687 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
16688 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16689 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
16690 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
16691 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
16692 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
16694 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
16695 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16696 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16697 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16698 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16700 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
16701 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
16702 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16704 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16705 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
16706 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
16707 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
16708 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
16709 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
16710 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
16711 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
16712 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
16713 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
16714 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
16715 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
16717 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
16718 Resolves ticket 22213.
16719 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
16720 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
16721 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
16722 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
16723 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
16724 types. Closes ticket 21651.
16725 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
16726 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
16729 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
16730 Closes ticket 21873.
16731 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
16732 Closes ticket 21151.
16733 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
16734 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
16736 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
16737 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16738 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
16739 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
16741 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
16742 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
16743 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
16744 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
16745 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
16746 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
16747 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
16748 default behavior is now unavailable.
16749 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
16750 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
16751 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
16752 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
16753 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
16754 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
16755 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
16757 o Removed features (tools):
16758 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
16759 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
16760 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
16761 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
16762 required. Closes ticket 21842.
16765 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
16766 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
16767 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
16768 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
16769 clients are not affected.
16771 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
16772 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
16773 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
16774 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
16775 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
16776 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16779 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16782 o Minor features (future-proofing):
16783 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
16784 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
16785 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
16786 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
16787 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
16788 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
16790 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16791 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
16792 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
16793 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
16794 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
16798 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
16799 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
16801 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
16802 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
16803 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
16804 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
16805 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
16806 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
16809 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
16810 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
16812 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
16813 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
16814 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
16815 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
16816 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
16818 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
16819 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16821 o Minor features (geoip):
16822 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16825 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
16826 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16827 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16828 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16830 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
16831 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
16832 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
16833 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16836 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
16837 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
16838 0.3.0 release series.
16840 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
16841 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
16842 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
16845 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
16846 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
16847 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
16848 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16850 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16851 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
16852 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
16853 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16854 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
16856 o Minor features (geoip):
16857 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16860 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
16861 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
16862 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
16863 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
16866 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16867 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
16868 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
16869 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16870 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
16871 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
16872 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
16873 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16875 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16876 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
16877 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16879 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16880 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
16881 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
16884 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16885 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
16886 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
16887 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
16888 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16891 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
16892 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
16893 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
16897 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
16898 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
16899 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
16900 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16901 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
16904 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
16905 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
16906 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16908 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16909 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16910 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16911 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16912 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16913 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16914 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16916 o Minor features (geoip):
16917 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16921 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
16922 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16923 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
16924 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16927 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
16928 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16929 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16931 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16932 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16934 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16935 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16936 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16938 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16939 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16940 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16943 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16944 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16945 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16946 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16947 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16948 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16949 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16950 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16951 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16953 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16954 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16955 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16956 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16957 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16958 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16959 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16960 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16961 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16962 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16963 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16964 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16965 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16967 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16968 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16969 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16970 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16971 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16973 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16974 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16975 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16977 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16978 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16979 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16980 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16981 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16982 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16983 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16986 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16987 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16988 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16989 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16990 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16991 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16992 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16994 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16995 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16996 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16997 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17000 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17001 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17002 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17003 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17005 o Minor features (geoip):
17006 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17010 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
17011 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17012 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
17013 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17016 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17017 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17018 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17020 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17021 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17023 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17024 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17025 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17027 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17028 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17029 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17032 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17033 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17034 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17035 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17036 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17037 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17038 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17039 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17040 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17042 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17043 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17044 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17045 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17046 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17047 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17048 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17049 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17050 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17052 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17053 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17054 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17055 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17056 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17058 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17059 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17060 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17061 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17062 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17065 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17066 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17067 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17068 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17069 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17071 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17072 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17073 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17075 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17076 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17077 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17078 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17079 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17080 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17083 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17084 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17085 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17086 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17087 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17088 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17089 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17092 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17093 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17094 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17095 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17096 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17097 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17098 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17100 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17101 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17102 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17103 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17106 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17107 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17108 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17109 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17111 o Minor features (geoip):
17112 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17116 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17117 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17120 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
17121 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17122 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
17123 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17126 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17127 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
17128 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17130 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17131 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17133 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17134 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17135 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17137 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17138 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17139 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17142 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17143 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17144 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17145 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17146 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17147 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17148 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17149 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17150 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17152 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17153 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17154 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17155 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17156 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17157 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17158 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17159 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17160 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17162 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17163 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17164 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17165 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17166 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17168 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17169 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17170 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17171 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17172 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17175 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17176 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17177 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17178 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17179 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17181 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17182 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17183 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17185 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17186 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17187 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17188 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17189 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17190 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17193 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17194 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17195 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17196 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17197 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17198 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17199 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17202 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17203 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17204 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17205 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17206 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17207 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17208 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17210 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17211 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17212 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17213 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17216 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17217 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17218 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17219 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17221 o Minor features (geoip):
17222 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17225 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17226 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17227 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17229 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
17230 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17231 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17232 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17233 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17234 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17236 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17237 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17238 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17242 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
17243 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17244 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
17245 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17248 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
17249 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17250 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17252 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17253 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17255 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17256 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17257 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17259 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17260 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17261 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17264 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17265 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17266 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17267 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17268 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17269 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17270 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17271 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17272 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17274 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17275 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17276 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17277 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17278 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17279 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17280 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17281 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17282 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17284 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17285 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17286 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17287 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17288 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17291 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17292 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17293 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17294 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17295 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17297 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17298 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17299 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17301 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17302 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17303 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17304 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17305 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17306 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17309 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17310 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17311 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17312 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17313 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17314 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17315 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17318 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17319 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17320 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17321 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17322 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17323 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17324 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17326 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17327 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17328 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17329 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17332 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17333 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17334 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17335 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17337 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17338 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17339 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17340 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17342 o Minor features (geoip):
17343 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17346 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17347 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17348 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17350 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17351 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17352 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17356 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
17357 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17358 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
17359 keep them from coming back.
17361 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
17362 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
17363 will be nearly identical to it.
17365 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
17366 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
17367 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
17368 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
17369 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
17370 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17372 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
17373 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
17374 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17376 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
17377 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
17378 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
17379 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
17380 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
17381 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
17382 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
17383 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
17384 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
17385 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17386 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17387 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17388 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17389 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17390 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17392 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
17393 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
17394 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
17396 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17397 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17398 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17400 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17401 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17402 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17403 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
17404 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
17405 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
17406 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
17408 o Minor features (geoip):
17409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17412 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
17413 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
17414 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
17417 o Minor features (testing):
17418 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
17419 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
17420 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
17422 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
17423 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
17424 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
17426 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17427 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17428 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17429 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
17430 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
17431 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17433 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17434 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
17435 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
17436 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17437 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
17438 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
17439 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
17442 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
17443 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
17444 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
17445 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17446 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
17447 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
17448 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17450 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17451 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
17452 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
17453 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
17454 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
17455 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17457 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17458 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
17459 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
17461 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
17462 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17463 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
17464 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
17465 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17468 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
17471 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
17472 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
17473 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
17474 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
17476 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
17477 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
17478 least January of 2020.
17480 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17481 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17482 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17483 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17486 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17487 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17488 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17489 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17490 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17491 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17492 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17494 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17495 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17496 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17497 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17498 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17499 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17500 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17502 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17503 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17504 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17506 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17507 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17508 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17510 o Minor features (geoip):
17511 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17514 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17515 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17516 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17518 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17519 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17521 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17522 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17523 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17525 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17526 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17527 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17528 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17529 Patch by "junglefowl".
17532 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
17533 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
17534 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
17535 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
17536 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
17537 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
17539 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
17540 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
17541 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
17544 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
17545 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17546 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17547 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17549 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
17550 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
17551 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
17552 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
17553 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17555 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
17556 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
17557 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
17558 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
17559 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17561 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
17562 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17563 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17564 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17565 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17566 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17567 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17569 o Minor feature (client):
17570 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
17571 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
17573 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
17574 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
17575 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
17576 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
17578 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
17579 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
17580 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
17581 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
17582 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
17584 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
17585 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
17586 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
17587 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
17588 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
17589 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
17590 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
17591 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
17592 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
17593 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
17595 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
17596 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17597 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17599 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17600 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17602 o Minor features (relay):
17603 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
17604 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
17605 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
17606 Written by Michael Sonntag.
17608 o Minor bugfix (logging):
17609 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
17610 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
17611 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
17612 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
17615 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17616 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
17617 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
17618 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17620 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
17621 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
17622 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
17624 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
17625 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17626 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
17627 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
17628 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17629 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
17630 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
17632 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
17633 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
17634 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
17635 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
17636 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
17637 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
17638 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
17641 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17642 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
17643 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17645 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17646 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
17647 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
17648 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
17649 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17650 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
17651 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
17652 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
17654 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
17655 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
17656 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17658 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17659 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
17660 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
17661 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
17663 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
17664 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
17665 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
17666 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17668 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
17669 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17670 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17671 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17672 Patch by "junglefowl".
17674 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
17675 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
17676 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
17680 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
17681 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17682 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
17683 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
17684 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
17685 version should upgrade.
17687 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
17688 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
17689 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
17690 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
17691 the set of fallback directories, and more.
17693 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
17694 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
17695 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
17696 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
17697 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
17698 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
17701 o Major features (security):
17702 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
17703 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
17704 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
17705 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
17706 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
17707 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
17709 o Major features (directory authority, security):
17710 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
17711 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
17712 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
17714 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
17715 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
17716 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
17717 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
17718 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
17721 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
17722 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
17723 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
17724 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
17725 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
17726 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
17727 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
17728 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
17729 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
17730 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
17731 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17733 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
17734 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
17735 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17737 o Minor features (controller):
17738 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
17739 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
17741 o Minor features (entry guards):
17742 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
17743 break regression tests.
17744 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
17745 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
17747 o Minor features (fallback directories):
17748 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
17750 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
17751 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
17752 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
17753 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
17754 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
17755 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
17756 Closes ticket 20539.
17757 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
17759 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
17760 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
17761 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
17762 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
17763 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
17765 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
17766 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
17767 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
17768 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
17769 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
17770 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
17771 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
17772 Closes ticket 20822.
17773 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
17774 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
17776 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
17777 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17780 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
17781 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
17782 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
17783 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
17785 o Minor features (linting):
17786 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
17787 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
17789 o Minor features (logging):
17790 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
17791 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
17793 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
17794 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
17795 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
17796 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
17797 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
17798 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
17800 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
17801 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
17802 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
17803 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
17805 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17806 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
17807 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
17810 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
17811 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
17812 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
17813 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17815 o Minor bugfixes (config):
17816 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
17817 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
17818 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
17819 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17821 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17822 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
17823 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
17826 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
17827 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
17828 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
17829 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
17830 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17832 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
17833 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
17834 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
17836 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17837 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
17838 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17839 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
17840 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
17841 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
17842 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17843 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
17844 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17846 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
17847 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
17848 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
17849 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17851 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
17852 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
17853 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
17854 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17855 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
17856 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17858 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17859 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
17860 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17861 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
17862 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
17863 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
17864 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
17865 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
17867 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17868 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
17869 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17871 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
17872 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
17873 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
17874 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
17876 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
17877 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17879 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17880 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
17881 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
17882 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
17883 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
17885 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17886 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
17887 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17889 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17890 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
17891 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
17892 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
17893 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
17895 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17896 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
17897 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
17899 o Documentation (formatting):
17900 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
17901 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
17903 o Documentation (man page):
17904 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
17905 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
17908 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
17909 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17910 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
17911 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
17912 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
17913 version should upgrade.
17915 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
17916 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
17918 o Major bugfixes (security):
17919 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
17920 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
17921 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
17922 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
17923 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
17924 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17926 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
17927 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
17928 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
17929 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
17930 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
17931 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
17932 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
17933 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
17934 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
17935 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
17936 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17938 o Minor features (geoip):
17939 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17942 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17943 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
17944 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
17945 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
17947 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
17948 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17951 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
17952 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
17953 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
17954 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
17955 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
17956 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
17957 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
17958 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
17960 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
17962 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
17963 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
17964 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
17965 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
17966 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
17969 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
17970 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
17971 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
17972 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
17973 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
17974 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
17975 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
17976 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
17979 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
17980 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
17981 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
17982 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
17983 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
17985 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
17986 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
17987 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
17988 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
17989 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
17990 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
17991 15056; part of proposal 220.
17992 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
17993 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
17994 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
17995 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
17996 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
17998 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
17999 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
18000 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
18001 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
18002 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18004 o Minor features (controller):
18005 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
18006 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
18009 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
18010 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
18011 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
18014 o Minor features (directory authority):
18015 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
18016 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
18017 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
18018 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
18019 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
18021 o Minor features (directory cache):
18022 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
18023 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
18026 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
18027 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
18028 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
18029 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
18031 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
18032 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
18033 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
18034 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
18036 o Minor features (infrastructure):
18037 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
18038 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
18040 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18041 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
18042 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
18043 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18045 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18046 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
18047 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18048 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
18049 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
18050 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18052 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
18053 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
18054 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
18055 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
18056 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18058 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
18059 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
18060 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
18061 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
18062 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18064 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18065 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
18066 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
18067 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
18068 on all recent tor versions.
18069 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
18070 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
18071 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
18072 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18074 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
18075 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
18076 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18078 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18079 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
18080 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
18081 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
18084 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
18085 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
18086 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
18089 o Minor bugfixes (util):
18090 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
18091 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
18092 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
18093 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
18095 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
18096 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
18097 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
18098 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
18100 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18101 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
18102 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
18103 Closes ticket 19858.
18104 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
18105 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
18106 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
18107 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
18108 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
18109 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
18110 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
18111 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
18112 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18113 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
18114 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
18115 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
18116 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
18117 redundant with the similar structures used in the
18118 channel abstraction.
18119 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
18120 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
18121 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
18122 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18123 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
18124 replaced with code automatically generated by the
18128 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
18129 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18130 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
18131 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
18133 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
18134 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
18136 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
18137 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
18138 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
18139 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
18140 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
18143 o Removed features:
18144 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
18145 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
18146 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
18148 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
18149 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
18150 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
18153 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
18154 from "overcaffeinated".
18155 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
18156 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
18157 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
18158 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
18159 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
18163 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
18164 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
18165 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18166 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18167 become available for their systems.
18169 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
18172 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
18173 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
18175 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18176 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18177 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18178 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18179 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18180 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18181 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18182 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18183 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18185 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18186 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18187 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18188 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18189 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18191 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
18192 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18196 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
18197 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
18199 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
18200 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
18201 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
18202 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
18203 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
18204 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
18205 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
18206 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
18208 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
18210 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
18211 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18212 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18213 become available for their systems.
18215 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
18216 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
18218 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
18219 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18220 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18221 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18222 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18223 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18224 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18225 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18226 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18228 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
18229 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18230 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18231 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18232 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18235 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
18236 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
18237 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
18240 o Minor features (geoip):
18241 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18244 o Minor bugfix (build):
18245 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
18246 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
18247 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18249 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18250 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
18251 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
18252 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18254 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
18255 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
18256 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18258 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18259 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
18260 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
18263 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18264 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
18265 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18266 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
18267 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
18268 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18270 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18271 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
18272 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
18273 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18275 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18276 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
18277 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18279 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18280 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
18281 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18282 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
18283 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
18284 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
18285 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18286 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
18287 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
18288 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18291 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
18292 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
18293 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
18294 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
18297 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18298 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
18299 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
18300 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
18301 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
18302 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
18305 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18306 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18307 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18310 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
18311 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
18312 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
18313 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
18315 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18316 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18317 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18318 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18321 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18322 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18323 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18324 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18327 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
18328 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18329 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18332 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18333 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18334 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18336 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18337 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18338 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18340 o Minor features (geoip):
18341 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18344 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
18345 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
18346 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
18347 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
18348 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
18350 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
18351 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
18352 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
18353 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
18354 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
18355 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18357 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
18358 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
18359 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18361 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18362 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
18363 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
18364 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
18365 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
18366 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
18368 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18369 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18370 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18372 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
18373 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18375 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
18376 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
18377 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
18378 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
18379 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
18380 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
18382 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18383 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
18384 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
18388 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
18389 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
18392 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
18393 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
18394 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
18395 everyone to test this release.
18397 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
18398 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18399 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18400 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18403 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
18404 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18405 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18406 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18409 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
18410 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
18411 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
18412 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
18413 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18414 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
18415 download, stop waiting for certificates.
18416 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
18417 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
18418 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
18420 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
18421 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
18422 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
18423 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18424 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
18425 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18426 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
18427 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
18428 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18429 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
18430 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
18431 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
18433 o Minor features (geoip):
18434 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18437 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
18438 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
18439 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
18440 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
18441 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
18442 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18444 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
18445 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
18446 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
18447 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18448 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
18449 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18451 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18452 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
18453 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
18454 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
18457 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18458 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18459 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18460 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
18461 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
18462 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18463 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18464 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18466 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
18467 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
18468 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18470 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18471 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18472 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18473 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
18474 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18475 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
18476 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
18477 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18479 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
18480 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
18481 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
18484 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18485 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
18486 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18489 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
18490 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18491 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
18492 tickets 19287 and 19290.
18495 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
18496 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
18497 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
18498 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
18499 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
18502 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
18503 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18504 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18505 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18506 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18507 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18508 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18509 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18510 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18512 o Minor features (geoip):
18513 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18517 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
18518 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
18519 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
18520 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
18521 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
18524 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
18525 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
18526 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
18527 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
18528 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
18529 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
18530 be a release candidate.
18532 o Major features (security fixes):
18533 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18534 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18535 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18536 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18537 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18538 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18539 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18540 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18542 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
18543 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
18544 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
18545 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
18546 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
18547 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
18548 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
18549 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
18550 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
18551 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
18552 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
18553 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
18554 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
18555 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
18558 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18559 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
18560 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18562 o Minor features (client, directory):
18563 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
18564 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
18565 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
18568 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
18569 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
18572 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
18573 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
18574 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
18577 o Minor features (geoip):
18578 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18581 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
18582 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
18583 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
18584 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
18585 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
18587 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
18588 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
18589 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
18590 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
18593 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
18594 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
18595 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
18596 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
18597 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
18599 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
18600 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
18601 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
18604 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18605 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
18606 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
18607 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
18609 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18610 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
18611 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
18612 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
18614 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
18615 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
18616 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
18617 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
18620 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18621 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
18622 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
18626 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
18627 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
18629 o Required libraries:
18630 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
18631 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
18632 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
18635 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
18636 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
18637 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
18638 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
18639 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
18640 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
18641 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
18642 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
18644 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
18645 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18646 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18647 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18648 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18649 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18651 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
18652 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18653 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18654 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18655 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18658 o Major features (circuit building, security):
18659 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
18660 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
18661 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
18663 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
18664 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
18666 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
18667 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
18668 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
18669 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
18670 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
18671 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
18672 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
18673 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
18674 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
18675 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
18676 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
18678 o Major features (resource management):
18679 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
18680 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
18681 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
18682 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
18683 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
18684 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
18686 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
18687 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
18688 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
18689 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
18691 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18692 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
18693 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
18694 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18696 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18697 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
18698 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
18699 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
18700 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
18701 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
18703 o Minor features (security, TLS):
18704 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
18705 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
18706 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
18707 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
18709 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18710 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
18711 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
18712 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18714 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
18715 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18718 o Minor feature (port flags):
18719 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
18720 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
18721 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
18722 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
18723 18693; patch by "teor".
18725 o Minor features (directory authority):
18726 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
18727 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
18728 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
18730 o Minor features (testing):
18731 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
18732 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
18733 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
18734 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
18736 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
18737 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
18738 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
18739 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
18740 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
18741 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
18742 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
18743 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
18744 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
18746 o Minor features (Tor2web):
18747 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
18748 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
18749 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
18751 o Minor features (unit tests):
18752 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
18753 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
18754 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
18755 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
18756 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
18757 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
18758 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
18759 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
18761 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
18762 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
18763 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
18764 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
18765 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
18766 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
18767 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
18768 assertion as a test failure.
18770 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
18771 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
18772 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
18773 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
18774 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
18775 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
18777 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
18778 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
18779 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
18780 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
18781 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
18782 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
18783 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
18784 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
18785 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
18786 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
18787 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18788 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18789 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
18790 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
18791 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
18792 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18794 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18795 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
18796 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
18797 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
18798 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18799 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
18800 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
18803 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18804 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
18805 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
18806 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
18807 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
18808 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
18809 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
18812 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18813 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
18814 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
18815 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
18817 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
18818 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
18819 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
18821 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18822 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
18823 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
18824 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
18825 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
18826 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18828 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18829 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
18830 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
18831 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
18833 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
18834 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
18835 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
18837 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
18838 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
18839 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
18840 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
18841 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
18842 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
18844 o Minor bugfixes (options):
18845 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
18846 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
18848 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
18849 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
18850 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18853 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
18854 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
18855 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
18856 19678. Patch by teor.
18858 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18859 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
18860 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
18861 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
18862 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
18863 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
18865 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
18866 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
18870 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
18871 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
18872 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
18873 who select public relays as their bridges.
18875 o Major bugfixes (crash):
18876 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18877 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18878 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18879 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18880 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18882 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
18883 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18884 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18885 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18886 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18889 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18890 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
18891 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
18892 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18894 o Minor features (geoip):
18895 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18899 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
18900 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
18901 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
18902 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
18903 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
18904 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
18906 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
18907 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
18908 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
18910 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
18911 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
18912 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
18913 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
18914 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
18915 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18917 o Major features (user interface):
18918 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
18919 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
18920 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
18922 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
18923 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
18924 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
18925 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18927 o Minor features (config):
18928 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
18929 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
18931 o Minor features (geoip):
18932 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18935 o Minor features (user interface):
18936 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
18937 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
18940 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
18941 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
18942 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
18944 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18945 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
18946 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
18948 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
18949 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
18950 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
18951 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18953 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
18954 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
18955 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
18958 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
18959 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
18960 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
18961 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
18963 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18964 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
18965 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
18967 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18968 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
18969 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18971 o Deprecated features:
18972 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
18973 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
18974 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
18975 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
18976 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
18977 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
18978 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
18979 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
18980 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
18981 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
18982 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
18983 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
18984 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
18985 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
18986 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
18987 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
18988 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
18989 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
18990 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
18991 and TransListenAddress.
18994 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
18995 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
18998 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
18999 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
19002 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
19003 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
19004 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
19005 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19006 encouraged to upgrade.
19008 o Directory authority changes:
19009 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19010 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19012 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
19013 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19014 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19015 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19016 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19017 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19019 o Minor features (geoip):
19020 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19024 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19025 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19028 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19029 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19030 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19031 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19034 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
19035 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
19036 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
19037 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
19038 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
19039 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
19040 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
19041 security, correctness, and performance.
19043 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
19045 o New system requirements:
19046 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
19047 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
19048 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
19049 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
19050 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
19051 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
19052 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
19053 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
19055 o Major features (build, hardening):
19056 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
19057 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
19058 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
19059 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
19060 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
19061 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
19062 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
19063 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
19064 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
19066 o Major features (compilation):
19067 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
19068 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
19069 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
19070 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
19072 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
19073 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
19074 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
19076 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
19077 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
19078 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
19079 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
19080 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
19081 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
19082 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
19083 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
19085 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
19086 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
19087 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
19088 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
19089 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
19090 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
19091 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
19093 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
19094 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
19095 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
19096 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
19097 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
19098 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
19099 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
19101 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
19102 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
19103 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
19104 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
19105 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
19107 o Minor features (build, hardening):
19108 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
19109 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
19110 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
19111 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
19112 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
19113 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
19114 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
19115 Closes ticket 18895.
19117 o Minor features (code safety):
19118 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
19119 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
19122 o Minor features (controller):
19123 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
19124 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
19125 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
19126 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
19127 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
19128 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
19129 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
19130 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
19132 o Minor features (directory authority):
19133 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
19134 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
19135 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
19136 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
19137 Implements ticket 18624.
19138 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
19139 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
19140 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
19143 o Minor features (hidden service):
19144 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
19145 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
19146 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
19149 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
19150 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
19151 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
19152 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
19153 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
19154 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
19155 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
19156 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
19157 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
19158 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
19159 Closes ticket 18365.
19161 o Minor features (logging):
19162 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
19163 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19164 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
19165 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
19166 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
19167 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
19168 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
19169 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
19170 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
19171 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
19173 o Minor features (performance):
19174 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
19175 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
19176 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
19177 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
19178 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
19179 Closes ticket 18815.
19181 o Minor features (relay, usability):
19182 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
19183 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
19184 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
19185 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
19188 o Minor features (testing):
19189 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
19190 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19191 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
19192 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
19193 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
19194 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
19195 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
19196 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
19199 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19200 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
19201 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
19202 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
19203 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19205 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19206 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
19207 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
19208 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
19209 patch from "cypherpunks".
19211 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
19212 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
19213 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19215 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19216 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
19217 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
19218 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19220 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19221 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
19222 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
19223 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19224 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
19225 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
19226 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
19227 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19229 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19230 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
19231 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19232 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
19233 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
19234 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
19235 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
19237 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
19238 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
19239 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
19242 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
19243 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
19244 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
19246 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
19247 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
19248 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
19251 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
19252 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
19253 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
19254 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
19257 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19258 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
19259 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19261 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
19262 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
19263 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
19266 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19267 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
19268 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19269 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
19270 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
19271 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
19272 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19273 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
19274 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
19277 o Minor bugfixes (time):
19278 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
19279 bugfix on all released tor versions.
19280 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
19281 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
19282 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
19283 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19285 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19286 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
19287 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
19288 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
19289 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
19291 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
19292 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19294 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19295 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
19297 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
19298 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19299 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
19300 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
19303 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
19304 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
19306 o Removed features:
19307 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
19308 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
19309 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
19310 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
19311 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
19312 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
19313 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
19316 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
19317 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
19318 command-line options to enable them.
19319 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
19320 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
19323 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
19325 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19327 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
19328 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
19329 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
19330 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
19331 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
19332 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
19334 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
19336 o Minor features (geoip):
19337 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19340 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19341 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
19342 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19344 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19345 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
19346 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
19347 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
19349 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19350 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
19351 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
19352 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
19353 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19354 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
19355 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
19356 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19359 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
19360 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
19361 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
19362 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
19363 against previous versions.
19365 o Directory authority changes:
19366 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
19368 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
19369 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
19370 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
19371 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
19373 o Minor features (build):
19374 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19375 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
19376 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
19377 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19378 Patch from intrigeri.
19380 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
19381 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
19382 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
19385 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
19386 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
19387 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
19388 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
19389 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
19392 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19393 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
19394 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
19395 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19396 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
19397 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
19398 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19400 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
19401 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
19402 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
19403 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
19405 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19406 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
19407 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
19408 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
19409 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
19410 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19412 o Fallback directory list:
19413 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
19414 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
19415 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
19416 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
19417 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
19418 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
19419 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
19420 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
19421 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
19424 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
19425 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19426 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
19427 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
19430 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
19431 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
19432 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
19433 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19435 o Minor features (build):
19436 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19437 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
19439 o Minor features (geoip):
19440 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19443 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19444 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
19445 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19447 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
19448 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
19449 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
19450 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
19454 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
19455 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
19456 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
19457 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
19458 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
19461 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
19462 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
19463 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
19464 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
19465 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19467 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
19468 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
19469 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
19470 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
19471 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
19472 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
19474 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19475 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
19476 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
19477 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19479 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
19480 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
19481 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
19482 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
19483 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
19484 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
19485 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
19487 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
19488 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
19490 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
19491 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
19492 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
19494 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
19495 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
19496 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
19497 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
19498 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
19499 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19502 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
19503 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
19504 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
19507 o Major bugfixes (key management):
19508 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
19509 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
19510 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
19511 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
19512 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
19513 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
19516 o Major bugfixes (testing):
19517 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
19518 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19519 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
19520 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19522 o Minor features (clients):
19523 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
19524 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
19525 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
19527 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
19528 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
19529 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
19530 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
19531 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
19532 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
19533 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
19534 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
19535 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
19536 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
19538 o Minor features (geoip):
19539 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19542 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
19543 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
19544 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
19547 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19548 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
19549 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19551 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19552 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
19553 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
19555 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
19556 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
19558 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
19559 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
19562 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19563 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
19564 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
19565 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
19566 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19567 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
19568 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
19569 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19571 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
19572 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
19573 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
19574 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
19575 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19577 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
19578 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
19579 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
19580 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19581 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19582 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
19585 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
19586 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
19587 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
19588 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
19589 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
19590 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19592 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19593 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
19594 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
19595 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19596 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
19597 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19598 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
19599 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19601 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19602 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
19603 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
19604 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
19606 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
19607 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
19608 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
19609 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
19610 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
19611 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
19614 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19615 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
19616 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
19618 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
19619 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
19620 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19622 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19623 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
19624 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
19626 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19627 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
19628 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
19629 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19630 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
19631 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
19632 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19634 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
19635 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
19636 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
19637 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19640 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
19641 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
19642 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
19643 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
19646 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
19647 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
19648 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
19649 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
19650 directory support should also be much improved.
19652 o New system requirements:
19653 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
19654 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
19655 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
19656 longer runs with, these versions.
19657 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
19658 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
19659 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
19661 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
19662 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
19663 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
19664 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
19665 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
19667 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
19668 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
19669 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
19670 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
19671 Reported by Guido Vranken.
19673 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
19674 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
19675 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
19676 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
19677 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
19679 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
19680 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
19681 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
19682 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19684 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
19685 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
19686 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19687 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
19688 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19690 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
19691 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
19692 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
19693 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
19694 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
19695 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19698 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
19699 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
19700 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19702 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
19703 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
19704 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
19705 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
19708 o Major bugfixes (voting):
19709 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
19710 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
19711 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
19712 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
19714 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
19715 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
19716 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
19717 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19718 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
19719 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
19720 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
19721 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
19722 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
19723 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19725 o Minor features (security, win32):
19726 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
19727 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
19730 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
19731 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
19732 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
19733 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
19735 o Minor features (build):
19736 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
19737 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
19738 Steven Chamberlain.
19740 o Minor features (code hardening):
19741 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
19742 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
19743 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
19746 o Minor features (crypto):
19747 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
19748 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
19751 o Minor features (geoip):
19752 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19755 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
19756 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
19757 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
19758 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
19759 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
19761 o Minor features (IPv6):
19762 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
19763 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
19764 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
19765 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
19766 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
19767 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
19768 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
19770 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19771 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
19772 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
19773 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
19774 while fixing 18548.
19776 o Minor features (robustness):
19777 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
19778 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
19779 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
19781 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
19782 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
19783 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
19784 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
19785 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
19786 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
19787 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
19790 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
19791 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
19792 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
19793 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
19794 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
19796 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
19797 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
19798 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
19799 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
19801 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19802 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
19803 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
19805 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
19806 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
19807 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19808 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
19809 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
19810 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
19812 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
19813 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
19814 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
19815 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
19816 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19818 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19819 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
19820 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
19821 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
19824 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
19825 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
19826 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19828 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
19829 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
19830 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
19831 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19833 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19834 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
19835 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
19836 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
19837 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
19838 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19840 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
19841 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
19842 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
19843 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
19845 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
19846 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
19847 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
19848 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
19849 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
19851 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
19852 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
19853 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
19854 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
19855 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
19856 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
19857 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
19858 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
19859 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
19862 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
19863 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
19864 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
19865 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19867 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
19868 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
19869 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
19871 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19872 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
19873 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
19874 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19875 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
19876 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
19877 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19878 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
19879 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19881 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19882 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
19883 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
19884 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
19885 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
19886 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
19887 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
19888 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
19889 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
19890 Christian, patch by teor.
19892 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
19893 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
19894 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
19895 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
19897 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
19898 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
19899 patch by "cypherpunks".
19900 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
19902 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
19903 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19905 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
19906 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
19907 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
19908 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
19910 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
19911 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
19912 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
19915 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19916 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
19917 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
19918 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
19919 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
19920 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19922 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
19923 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
19924 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
19925 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
19927 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
19928 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
19929 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
19930 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
19932 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19933 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
19934 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
19935 17744. Patch from zerosion.
19936 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
19937 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
19938 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
19939 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
19940 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
19943 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
19944 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
19945 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
19947 o Removed features:
19948 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
19949 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
19950 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
19953 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
19955 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
19956 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
19959 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
19960 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
19961 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
19962 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
19963 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
19965 o Major features (security, Linux):
19966 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
19967 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
19968 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
19969 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
19970 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
19972 o Major features (directory system):
19973 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
19974 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
19975 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
19976 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
19977 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
19978 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
19979 "mikeperry" and "teor".
19980 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
19981 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
19982 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
19983 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
19984 15775. Patch by "teor".
19985 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
19986 "gsathya", and "karsten".
19987 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
19988 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
19989 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
19990 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
19991 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
19994 o Major key updates:
19995 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
19996 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
19999 o Minor features (security, clock):
20000 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
20001 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
20002 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
20003 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
20005 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
20006 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
20007 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
20008 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
20009 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
20010 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20012 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
20013 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
20014 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
20015 Implements ticket 17026.
20016 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
20017 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
20018 Implements feature 17986.
20019 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
20020 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
20021 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
20022 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
20023 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
20024 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
20027 o Minor features (security, RNG):
20028 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
20029 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
20030 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
20031 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
20032 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
20033 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
20034 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
20035 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
20036 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
20037 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
20040 o Minor features (accounting):
20041 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
20042 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
20043 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
20044 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
20046 o Minor features (build):
20047 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
20048 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
20049 patch from "cypherpunks."
20050 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
20051 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
20052 17549, 17921, and 17984.
20054 o Minor features (controller):
20055 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
20056 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
20057 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
20058 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
20059 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
20060 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
20061 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
20062 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
20065 o Minor features (crypto):
20066 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
20068 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
20069 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
20070 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
20071 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
20072 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
20073 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
20074 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
20075 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20077 o Minor features (directory downloads):
20078 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
20079 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
20080 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
20081 17864; patch by "teor".
20082 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
20083 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
20084 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
20086 o Minor features (geoip):
20087 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20090 o Minor features (IPv6):
20091 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
20092 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
20093 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
20094 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
20095 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
20096 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
20097 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
20098 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
20099 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
20100 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
20101 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
20103 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
20104 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20105 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
20106 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
20108 o Minor features (logging):
20109 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
20110 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
20111 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
20112 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
20115 o Minor features (portability):
20116 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
20117 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
20119 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
20120 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
20121 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
20122 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
20123 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
20125 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
20126 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
20127 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
20128 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
20129 Resolves ticket 17951.
20131 o Minor features (replay cache):
20132 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
20133 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
20135 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
20136 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
20137 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
20138 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
20139 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20140 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
20141 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
20142 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
20143 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
20144 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
20145 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20146 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
20147 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
20148 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20150 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
20151 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
20152 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
20153 from "unixninja92".
20155 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20156 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
20157 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
20158 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20159 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
20160 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
20162 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
20165 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20166 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
20167 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
20168 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20169 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
20170 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
20171 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20172 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
20174 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20175 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20176 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
20177 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
20178 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
20179 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
20180 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20181 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
20183 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
20184 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20186 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
20187 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
20188 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20190 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
20191 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
20192 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
20193 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20195 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20196 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
20197 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20199 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20200 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
20201 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20203 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20204 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
20205 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
20206 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
20207 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
20209 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
20210 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20212 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20213 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
20214 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
20217 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20218 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
20219 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
20220 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
20221 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
20222 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
20224 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
20225 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
20226 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
20227 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
20228 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
20230 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
20231 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
20232 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
20235 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
20236 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
20237 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
20238 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20239 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
20240 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
20241 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
20242 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
20245 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20246 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
20247 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
20248 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
20249 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
20250 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20251 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
20252 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
20253 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20254 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
20256 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
20257 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20259 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20260 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
20261 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
20262 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
20263 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
20264 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
20265 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
20266 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
20267 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
20268 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
20270 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
20271 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
20272 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
20273 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
20275 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
20276 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
20277 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
20278 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
20279 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
20281 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
20282 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
20285 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
20286 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
20287 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
20288 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
20289 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
20290 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
20291 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
20294 o Removed features:
20295 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
20296 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
20297 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
20298 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
20299 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
20302 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
20303 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
20304 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
20305 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
20306 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
20307 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
20308 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
20309 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
20310 portion of ticket 16831.
20311 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
20312 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
20313 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
20315 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
20316 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
20319 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
20320 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
20321 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
20323 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
20324 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
20325 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
20326 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
20327 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
20328 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
20331 o Minor features (geoip):
20332 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20335 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20336 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
20337 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
20338 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
20339 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
20340 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
20342 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20343 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
20344 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
20345 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
20346 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
20347 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
20348 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
20349 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20350 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
20351 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20354 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
20355 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
20356 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
20357 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
20358 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
20359 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
20360 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
20361 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
20362 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
20363 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
20364 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
20365 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
20366 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
20367 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
20368 that would make him proud.
20370 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
20372 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
20373 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
20374 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
20375 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
20376 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
20377 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
20378 of Tor invoke which others.
20380 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
20383 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
20384 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20385 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
20386 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
20387 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
20388 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
20389 release will the the official stable release.
20391 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
20392 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
20393 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
20394 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
20395 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
20398 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
20399 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
20400 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20402 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
20403 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
20404 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20405 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
20406 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20407 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
20408 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
20410 o Minor features (geoIP):
20411 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20414 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20415 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
20416 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
20417 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
20418 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20419 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20420 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20422 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20423 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
20424 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
20427 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
20428 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
20429 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
20430 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
20432 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20433 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
20434 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
20435 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
20436 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
20437 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
20438 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
20439 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
20440 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20441 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
20442 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
20446 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
20447 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
20451 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
20452 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20453 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
20454 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
20455 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
20457 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
20458 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
20459 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
20460 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
20462 o Major features (security, hidden services):
20463 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
20464 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
20465 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
20466 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
20467 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
20468 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
20469 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
20471 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
20472 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
20473 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
20474 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
20475 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
20476 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
20479 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
20480 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
20481 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
20482 available. Implements ticket 16535.
20483 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
20484 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
20487 o Major features (performance testing):
20488 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
20489 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
20490 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
20492 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
20493 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
20494 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
20495 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
20497 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
20498 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
20499 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
20500 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
20501 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
20502 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
20504 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
20505 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
20507 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
20508 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
20509 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20510 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
20511 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20513 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
20514 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
20515 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
20516 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
20517 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
20518 own. Implements feature 15482.
20519 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
20520 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
20522 o Minor features (compilation):
20523 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
20524 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
20525 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
20526 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
20527 which started requiring ECC.
20529 o Minor features (geoip):
20530 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20533 o Minor features (hidden services):
20534 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
20535 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
20536 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
20537 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
20538 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
20539 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
20540 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
20541 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
20543 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
20544 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
20545 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
20548 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
20549 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
20550 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
20551 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
20553 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
20554 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
20555 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
20556 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
20557 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
20559 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
20560 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
20561 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
20562 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
20563 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20564 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
20565 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
20566 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
20567 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
20568 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
20569 Related to ticket 16069.
20570 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
20571 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
20572 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
20573 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
20574 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
20575 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20577 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
20578 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
20579 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20580 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
20581 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
20583 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
20584 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
20585 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20587 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
20588 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
20589 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
20590 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20592 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20593 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
20594 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
20595 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
20596 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20598 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
20599 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
20600 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
20601 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
20602 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20603 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
20604 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
20605 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
20606 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
20607 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
20608 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
20611 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
20612 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
20613 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20615 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20616 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
20617 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20618 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
20619 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20621 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
20622 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
20623 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
20624 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
20626 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20627 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
20628 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
20630 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
20631 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20632 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
20633 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
20634 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
20635 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20636 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
20637 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20639 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20640 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
20641 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
20642 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
20643 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
20645 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
20646 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
20649 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20650 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
20651 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
20652 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
20653 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
20654 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
20655 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
20656 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
20657 function. Closes ticket 16763.
20658 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
20659 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
20660 suite of other microdesc functions.
20661 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
20662 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
20663 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
20664 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
20665 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
20666 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
20667 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
20668 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
20669 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
20670 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
20672 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
20673 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
20675 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
20678 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
20679 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
20680 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
20681 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
20685 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
20686 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
20687 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
20688 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
20689 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
20690 Closes ticket 13338.
20691 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
20692 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
20693 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
20694 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
20695 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
20696 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
20699 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
20700 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
20701 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
20702 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
20703 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
20704 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
20705 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
20707 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
20708 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
20709 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
20710 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
20711 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
20712 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
20713 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
20714 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
20715 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
20716 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
20717 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
20718 network before we begin.
20719 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
20720 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
20721 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
20722 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
20723 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
20724 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
20725 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
20726 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
20729 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
20730 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
20731 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
20732 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
20733 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
20734 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
20736 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
20737 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
20738 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
20740 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
20741 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
20742 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
20743 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
20744 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
20745 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
20746 Implements part of ticket 12498.
20747 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
20748 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
20749 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
20750 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
20751 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
20752 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
20753 part of ticket 12498.
20754 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
20755 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
20756 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
20757 key). Closes ticket 13642.
20759 o Major features (Hidden services):
20760 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
20761 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
20762 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
20763 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
20764 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
20766 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
20767 introduction points, which used to change the number of
20768 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
20769 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
20771 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
20772 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
20773 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
20774 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
20775 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
20776 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
20778 o Major features (performance):
20779 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
20780 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
20781 Implements ticket 16467.
20782 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
20783 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
20784 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
20785 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
20787 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
20788 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
20789 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
20790 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
20791 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
20792 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
20794 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
20795 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
20796 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
20797 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
20798 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
20799 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
20800 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
20801 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
20804 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20805 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
20806 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
20807 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
20808 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
20809 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
20810 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
20813 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
20814 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
20815 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
20816 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
20817 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
20818 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20820 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
20821 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
20822 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
20823 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
20824 by "cypherpunks_backup".
20825 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
20826 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
20827 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
20830 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
20831 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
20832 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
20833 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
20834 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
20835 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
20836 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
20838 o Minor features (client):
20839 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
20840 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
20841 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
20843 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
20844 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
20845 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
20846 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20847 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
20848 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
20849 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
20852 o Minor features (control protocol):
20853 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
20854 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
20856 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20857 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
20858 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
20859 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
20860 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
20861 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
20863 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
20864 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20865 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20867 o Minor features (hidden services):
20868 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
20869 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
20870 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
20871 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
20874 o Minor features (portability):
20875 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
20876 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
20877 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
20879 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
20880 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
20881 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
20882 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
20884 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20885 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
20886 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
20887 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20889 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
20890 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
20891 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
20892 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
20893 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
20894 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
20896 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20897 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
20898 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
20899 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20900 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
20901 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
20902 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20904 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20905 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
20906 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20908 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
20909 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
20910 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
20911 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
20913 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
20914 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
20915 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
20916 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
20918 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
20919 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
20922 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20923 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
20924 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
20925 from "cypherpunks".
20927 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
20928 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
20929 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20930 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
20931 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
20932 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
20934 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
20935 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
20936 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20938 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
20939 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
20940 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20942 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
20943 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
20944 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20945 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
20946 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20947 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
20948 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
20949 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
20950 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20952 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20953 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
20954 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
20955 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
20956 haven't supported that in ages.
20957 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
20958 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
20959 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
20960 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
20963 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
20964 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
20965 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
20966 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
20967 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
20968 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
20970 o Removed features:
20971 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
20972 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
20973 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
20974 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
20975 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
20976 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
20977 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
20978 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
20979 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
20980 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
20981 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
20982 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
20983 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
20984 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
20985 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
20986 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
20987 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
20990 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
20991 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
20992 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
20993 Closes ticket 15817.
20994 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
20995 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
20997 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
20998 default as a part of "make check".
20999 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
21000 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
21001 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
21002 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
21006 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
21007 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
21008 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
21009 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
21010 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
21011 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
21013 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
21014 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21015 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21016 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21017 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21018 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21019 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21020 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21023 o Major bugfixes (stability):
21024 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21025 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21026 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21027 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21028 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21029 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21030 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21033 o Minor features (geoip):
21034 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21035 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21037 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
21038 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21039 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21040 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21041 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21042 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21044 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21045 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21046 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21047 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21050 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
21051 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
21052 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
21053 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
21054 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
21056 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
21057 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21058 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
21059 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
21060 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21063 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
21064 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21065 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21066 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21067 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
21068 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
21069 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21071 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21072 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21073 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21074 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21076 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21077 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
21078 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
21079 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
21080 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21081 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21084 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21085 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21086 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21089 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
21090 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
21091 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
21092 authorities should upgrade.
21094 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21095 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21096 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21097 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21100 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21101 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21102 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21105 o Minor features (geoip):
21106 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21107 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21111 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
21112 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
21113 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
21114 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
21115 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
21116 the hidden services subsystem.
21118 o New system requirements:
21119 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
21120 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
21123 o Major features (controller):
21124 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
21125 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
21127 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
21128 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
21129 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
21130 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
21131 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
21132 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
21133 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
21135 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21136 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21137 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21138 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21141 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
21142 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
21143 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
21144 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
21145 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
21147 o Minor features (command-line interface):
21148 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
21149 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21150 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
21151 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
21153 o Minor features (controller):
21154 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
21155 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
21156 present. Implements ticket 14840.
21157 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
21158 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
21159 Closes ticket 14845.
21160 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
21161 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
21162 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
21164 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
21165 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
21166 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
21167 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
21169 o Minor features (geoip):
21170 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21171 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21174 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
21175 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
21176 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
21177 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
21178 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
21179 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
21180 Closes ticket 15745.
21182 o Minor features (logging):
21183 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
21184 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
21187 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
21188 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
21189 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
21190 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
21192 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
21193 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
21194 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
21195 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
21196 Resolves ticket 15435.
21198 o Minor features (testing):
21199 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
21200 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
21201 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
21202 files. Closes ticket 15180.
21203 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
21204 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
21205 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
21206 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
21207 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
21208 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
21209 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
21210 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
21211 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
21212 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
21213 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
21214 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
21216 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21217 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
21218 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
21221 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
21222 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
21223 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
21225 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
21226 stderr, not stdout.
21228 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
21229 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
21230 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
21231 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
21232 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
21233 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
21234 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
21235 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21237 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
21238 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
21239 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
21241 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
21242 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
21243 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
21246 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
21247 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21248 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21250 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
21251 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21253 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
21254 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
21255 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
21256 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
21259 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
21260 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
21261 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
21262 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
21263 recent enough Clang.
21265 o Minor bugfixes (network):
21266 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
21267 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
21268 unsuitable for public communications.
21270 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21271 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
21272 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
21273 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
21274 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
21275 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
21277 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
21278 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
21279 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
21280 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
21281 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
21282 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
21283 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
21284 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
21286 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21287 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
21288 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
21290 - Set the severity correctly when testing
21291 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
21292 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
21293 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
21294 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
21296 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21297 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
21298 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
21300 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
21301 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
21302 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
21303 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
21304 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
21307 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
21308 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
21310 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
21311 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21312 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
21313 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
21314 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
21317 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
21318 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
21319 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
21320 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
21321 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
21322 Closes ticket 14922.
21324 o Removed features:
21325 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
21326 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
21327 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
21328 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
21329 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
21330 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
21331 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
21332 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
21333 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
21334 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
21335 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
21338 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
21339 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21340 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21341 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21342 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21344 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21345 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21347 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21348 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21349 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21350 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21351 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21352 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21353 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21355 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21356 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21357 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21358 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21359 Resolves ticket 15515.
21362 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
21363 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21364 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21365 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21366 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21368 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21369 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21371 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21372 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21373 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21374 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21375 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21376 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21377 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21379 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21380 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21381 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21382 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21383 Resolves ticket 15515.
21386 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
21387 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
21388 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
21389 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
21390 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21392 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
21393 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21395 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21396 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21397 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21398 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21399 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21400 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21401 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21403 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21404 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21405 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21406 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21407 Resolves ticket 15515.
21408 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
21409 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
21410 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
21414 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
21415 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
21417 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
21418 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
21419 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
21420 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
21421 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
21422 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
21423 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
21424 bugs should be addressed.
21426 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21427 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
21428 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
21429 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21431 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
21432 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
21433 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
21435 o Major bugfixes (client):
21436 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
21437 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21440 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
21441 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
21442 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
21443 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
21444 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
21445 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21447 o Major bugfixes (portability):
21448 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
21449 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
21452 o Minor features (heartbeat):
21453 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
21454 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
21455 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
21456 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
21458 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21459 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
21460 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
21463 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
21464 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
21466 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
21467 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
21468 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
21470 o Directory authority changes:
21471 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21472 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21473 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21474 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21475 closes ticket 14487.
21477 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21478 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21479 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21482 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21483 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21484 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21485 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21486 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21487 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21488 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21489 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21491 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
21492 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21493 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21494 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21496 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21497 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21498 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21499 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21501 o Minor features (controller):
21502 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
21503 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
21504 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
21506 o Minor features (geoip):
21507 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21508 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21511 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
21512 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
21513 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
21514 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21515 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
21516 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21518 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21519 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
21520 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
21521 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
21523 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
21524 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
21525 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
21526 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
21527 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21528 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
21529 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21530 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21532 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21533 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21534 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21536 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
21537 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
21538 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
21539 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
21540 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
21544 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
21545 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
21546 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
21549 o Directory authority changes:
21550 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21551 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21552 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21553 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21554 closes ticket 14487.
21556 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
21557 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21558 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21559 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21561 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
21562 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21563 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21564 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21565 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21566 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21567 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21568 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21570 o Minor features (geoip):
21571 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21572 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21575 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
21576 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
21577 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
21578 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
21579 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
21581 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21582 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21583 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21586 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21587 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21588 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
21589 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21590 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21591 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21592 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21593 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21595 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
21596 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
21597 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
21600 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21601 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
21602 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
21604 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
21605 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
21606 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21607 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21608 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21610 o Minor features (controller):
21611 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
21612 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
21613 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
21615 o Minor features (geoip):
21616 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21617 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21620 o Minor features (logs):
21621 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
21624 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
21625 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
21626 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
21627 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21628 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
21629 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
21630 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
21631 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
21632 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
21634 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21635 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
21637 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
21640 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21641 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
21642 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
21644 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
21645 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
21646 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
21647 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21648 from "cypherpunks".
21649 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
21650 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21653 o Directory authority IP change:
21654 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21655 closes ticket 14487.
21658 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
21659 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
21660 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
21664 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
21665 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
21666 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
21667 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
21668 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
21669 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
21671 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
21672 the next version will be a release candidate.
21674 o Deprecated versions:
21675 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
21676 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
21678 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
21679 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
21680 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
21681 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
21682 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
21683 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
21685 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
21686 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
21687 Implements ticket 11485.
21689 o Major features (changed defaults):
21690 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
21691 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
21692 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
21693 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
21694 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
21695 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
21697 o Major features (directory system):
21698 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
21699 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
21700 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
21701 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
21702 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
21703 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
21704 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
21705 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
21706 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
21707 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
21708 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
21709 227. Closes ticket 10395.
21711 o Major features (guards):
21712 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
21713 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
21714 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
21715 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
21716 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
21718 o Major features (performance):
21719 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
21720 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
21721 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
21722 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
21723 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
21724 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
21725 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
21726 Implements ticket 9682.
21728 o Major features (relay):
21729 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
21730 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
21731 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
21733 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
21734 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21735 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21736 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21738 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
21739 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
21740 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
21741 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
21742 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
21743 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
21744 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
21746 o Minor features (build):
21747 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
21748 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
21749 Resolves ticket 13037.
21751 o Minor features (controller):
21752 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
21753 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
21755 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
21756 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
21757 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
21758 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
21759 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
21760 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
21762 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
21763 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
21764 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
21765 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
21766 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
21767 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
21768 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
21769 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
21770 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
21771 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
21773 o Minor features (geoip):
21774 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
21775 GeoLite2 Country database.
21777 o Minor features (guard nodes):
21778 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
21779 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
21780 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
21782 o Minor features (hidden service):
21783 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
21784 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
21785 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
21786 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
21787 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
21788 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
21789 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
21790 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
21792 o Minor features (interface):
21793 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
21794 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
21795 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
21797 o Minor features (logging):
21798 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
21799 Resolves ticket 6852.
21800 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
21801 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
21802 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
21804 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
21805 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
21807 o Minor features (stability):
21808 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
21809 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
21812 o Minor features (systemd):
21813 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
21814 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
21816 o Minor features (testing networks):
21817 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
21818 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
21819 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
21820 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
21821 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
21822 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
21824 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
21825 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
21826 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
21827 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
21828 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
21830 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
21831 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
21832 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
21833 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
21834 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
21836 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
21837 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
21838 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
21839 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21840 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
21841 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
21842 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
21843 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21845 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
21846 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
21847 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
21848 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21849 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
21850 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21851 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
21852 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
21854 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
21855 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
21856 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
21859 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
21860 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
21861 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
21862 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
21863 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21865 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
21866 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
21867 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
21868 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
21869 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21871 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21872 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
21873 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
21874 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
21875 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
21876 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
21877 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
21878 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
21879 Addresses ticket 14188.
21880 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
21881 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
21882 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
21883 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
21884 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
21885 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
21886 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
21887 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
21888 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21890 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21891 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
21892 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
21893 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
21894 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
21895 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21896 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
21897 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21899 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
21900 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
21901 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
21902 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
21903 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21904 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
21905 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
21906 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21907 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
21908 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21909 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
21910 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21911 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21913 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
21914 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
21915 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
21916 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
21917 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
21918 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
21919 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
21920 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
21921 state, and key files.
21922 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
21923 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
21926 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21927 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
21928 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
21929 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
21930 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21931 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
21932 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
21933 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21934 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
21935 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
21936 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21938 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21939 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
21940 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21941 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
21943 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
21944 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
21946 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
21947 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
21948 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
21949 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
21950 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
21951 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21953 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
21954 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
21955 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
21956 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21957 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
21958 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
21959 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21960 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
21961 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
21962 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21964 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21965 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
21966 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
21968 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
21969 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
21971 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
21972 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
21973 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
21974 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
21975 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21977 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
21978 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
21979 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
21980 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
21983 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
21984 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
21985 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
21988 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21989 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21990 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21992 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
21993 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
21994 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
21995 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
21996 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
21997 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
21998 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
22000 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
22001 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
22004 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
22005 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
22006 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
22008 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
22009 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
22010 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
22013 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22014 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
22015 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
22016 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
22017 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
22018 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
22019 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
22020 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
22021 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
22023 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
22024 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
22026 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
22030 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
22031 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
22032 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
22033 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22034 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
22035 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22037 o Downgraded warnings:
22038 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
22039 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
22041 o Removed features:
22042 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
22043 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
22044 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
22045 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
22046 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
22050 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
22051 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22052 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
22053 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
22054 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
22055 (existing behavior).
22056 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
22057 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
22058 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
22059 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
22060 Closes ticket 14107.
22061 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
22062 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22063 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
22064 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
22066 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
22067 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
22068 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22071 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
22072 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
22073 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
22074 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
22075 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
22076 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
22078 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
22079 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
22080 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
22081 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
22083 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
22084 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
22085 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
22086 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
22087 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
22088 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
22090 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
22091 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
22092 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
22093 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
22094 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
22095 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
22096 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
22099 o Major features (hidden services):
22100 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
22101 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
22102 Closes ticket 13667.
22103 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
22104 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
22105 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
22106 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
22107 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
22108 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
22109 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
22110 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
22111 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
22112 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
22113 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
22115 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
22116 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
22117 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
22118 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
22119 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
22120 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
22123 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22124 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
22125 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
22126 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
22127 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
22128 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
22130 o Directory authority changes:
22131 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
22132 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
22133 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
22135 o Major removed features:
22136 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
22137 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
22138 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
22139 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
22141 o Minor features (client):
22142 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
22143 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
22144 Resolves ticket 13315.
22146 o Minor features (controller):
22147 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
22148 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
22151 o Minor features (geoip):
22152 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22155 o Minor features (hidden services):
22156 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
22157 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
22158 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
22159 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
22160 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
22161 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
22163 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
22164 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
22165 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
22167 o Minor features (systemd):
22168 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
22169 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22170 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
22171 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22173 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
22174 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
22175 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
22176 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
22177 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
22180 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
22181 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
22182 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
22183 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
22184 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
22186 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
22187 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
22188 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
22191 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
22192 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
22193 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
22194 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
22195 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
22197 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
22198 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
22199 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22201 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22202 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
22203 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
22204 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
22205 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
22207 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
22208 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
22211 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22212 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
22213 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
22214 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
22215 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
22216 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
22217 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
22218 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
22219 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22220 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
22221 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
22222 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
22223 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
22224 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
22227 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
22228 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
22229 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22230 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
22231 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
22232 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
22234 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22235 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
22236 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
22237 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
22239 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
22240 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22242 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22243 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
22244 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
22245 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
22248 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
22249 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
22250 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
22251 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
22252 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
22253 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
22255 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
22256 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
22257 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
22258 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
22259 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22260 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
22261 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
22262 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
22263 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
22264 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
22265 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
22266 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
22267 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
22268 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
22269 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
22270 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
22271 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
22272 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
22273 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
22274 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22275 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
22276 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
22277 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
22278 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
22279 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
22280 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
22281 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
22282 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22283 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
22284 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
22285 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
22286 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
22288 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
22289 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
22290 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
22291 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
22292 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22294 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22295 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
22296 with a function instead.
22297 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
22298 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
22299 Closes ticket 13172.
22300 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
22301 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
22302 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
22303 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
22304 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
22305 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
22306 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
22307 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
22308 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
22309 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
22310 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
22311 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
22315 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
22316 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
22317 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
22318 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
22319 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
22320 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
22321 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
22322 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
22323 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
22324 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
22325 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
22326 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
22329 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
22330 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
22331 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
22332 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
22333 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
22334 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
22336 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
22340 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
22341 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
22342 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
22343 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
22344 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
22345 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
22346 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
22347 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
22348 of introducing infinite download loops.
22350 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
22351 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
22352 with 0.2.5.x for now.
22354 o New compiler and system requirements:
22355 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
22356 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
22357 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
22358 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
22360 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
22361 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
22362 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
22363 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
22364 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
22365 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
22366 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
22367 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
22368 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
22370 o Removed platform support:
22371 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
22372 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
22373 Closes ticket 11446.
22375 o Major features (bridges):
22376 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
22377 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
22378 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
22381 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
22382 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
22383 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
22384 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
22387 o Major features (directory system):
22388 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
22389 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
22390 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
22391 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
22393 o Major features (sample torrc):
22394 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
22395 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
22396 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
22397 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
22398 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
22399 generally useful "sample torrc".
22401 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22402 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
22403 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22405 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
22406 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
22407 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
22408 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
22409 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22411 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
22412 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
22413 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
22414 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
22416 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
22417 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
22418 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
22419 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
22420 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
22421 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
22424 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
22425 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
22426 document. Implements feature 10427.
22428 o Minor features (client):
22429 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
22430 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
22431 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
22432 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
22434 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22435 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
22436 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
22437 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
22438 argument more than once.
22439 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
22440 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
22441 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
22442 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
22443 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
22444 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
22446 o Minor features (logging):
22447 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
22448 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
22449 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
22450 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
22451 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
22452 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
22453 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
22454 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
22455 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
22457 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
22458 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
22459 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
22460 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
22462 o Minor features (relay):
22463 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
22464 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
22465 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
22467 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
22468 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
22469 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
22470 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
22472 o Minor features (testing networks):
22473 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
22474 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
22475 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
22476 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
22477 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
22480 o Minor features (validation):
22481 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
22482 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
22483 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
22484 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
22485 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
22486 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
22487 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
22488 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
22490 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
22491 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
22492 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
22493 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22495 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22496 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
22497 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
22498 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22500 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
22501 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
22502 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
22504 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
22505 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
22506 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
22508 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
22509 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22510 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
22511 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
22512 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22513 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
22514 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22516 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22517 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
22518 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
22519 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22520 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
22521 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22522 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
22523 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
22524 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
22526 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
22527 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
22528 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
22529 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
22530 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
22532 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
22533 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
22534 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
22536 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22537 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
22538 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
22539 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
22540 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
22542 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
22543 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
22544 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
22545 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22546 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
22547 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
22548 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22549 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
22550 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
22551 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
22552 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
22555 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
22556 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
22557 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
22558 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
22559 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22561 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
22562 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
22563 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22564 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
22565 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
22568 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
22569 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
22570 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22571 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
22572 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
22573 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22575 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22576 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
22577 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
22578 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22580 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
22581 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
22582 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
22583 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22585 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
22586 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
22587 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
22588 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
22591 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
22592 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
22593 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22596 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
22597 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22598 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
22599 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
22600 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
22603 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22604 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
22605 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
22607 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
22608 Resolves ticket 12205.
22609 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
22610 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
22611 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
22612 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
22614 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
22615 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
22616 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
22618 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
22619 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
22621 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
22622 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
22623 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
22624 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
22625 or_options_t structure.
22628 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
22629 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
22630 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
22631 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
22634 o Removed features:
22635 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
22636 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
22637 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
22638 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
22639 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
22640 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
22641 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
22642 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
22643 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
22645 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
22646 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
22648 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
22649 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
22650 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
22651 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
22652 anymore, and ignore it.
22655 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
22656 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
22657 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
22658 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
22659 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
22660 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
22661 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
22662 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
22663 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
22664 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
22665 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
22666 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
22668 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
22669 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
22670 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
22672 o Distribution (systemd):
22673 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
22674 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
22675 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
22676 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
22677 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22679 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
22680 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
22682 o Removed features (directory authorities):
22683 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
22684 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
22685 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
22686 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
22687 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
22688 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
22689 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
22690 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
22691 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
22693 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
22694 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
22695 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
22696 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
22699 o Testing (test-network.sh):
22700 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
22701 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
22703 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
22705 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
22706 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
22707 Partially implements ticket 13161.
22710 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
22711 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
22713 It adds several new security features, including improved
22714 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
22715 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
22716 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
22717 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
22718 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
22719 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
22720 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
22721 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
22722 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
22723 and features mentioned below.
22725 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
22726 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
22728 o Deprecated versions:
22729 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
22730 attention for some while.
22733 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
22734 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
22735 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
22736 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
22737 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
22738 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
22740 o Major security fixes:
22741 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
22742 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
22743 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
22745 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
22746 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
22747 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
22748 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
22751 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
22752 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
22753 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
22754 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22756 o Compilation fixes:
22757 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
22758 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
22759 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
22761 o Downgraded warnings:
22762 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
22763 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
22766 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
22767 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
22768 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
22769 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
22770 (which does affect Tor).
22772 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
22773 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
22774 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
22775 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
22777 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
22778 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
22779 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
22780 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
22783 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
22784 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
22785 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
22786 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
22787 the directory authorities.
22790 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
22791 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
22792 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
22793 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
22794 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
22795 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
22796 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
22797 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
22798 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
22799 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
22800 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
22801 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22803 o Directory authority changes:
22804 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22807 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
22808 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
22809 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
22810 the directory authorities.
22813 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
22814 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
22815 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
22816 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
22817 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
22818 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
22819 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
22820 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
22821 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
22822 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
22823 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
22824 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22826 o Directory authority changes:
22827 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22829 o Minor features (geoip):
22830 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22834 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
22835 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
22836 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
22837 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
22838 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
22840 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
22841 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
22842 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
22843 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
22844 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
22845 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
22846 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
22847 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
22848 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
22849 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
22850 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
22851 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
22852 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
22853 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22854 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
22855 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
22857 o Major bugfixes (relay):
22858 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
22859 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22860 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22861 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
22862 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
22863 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
22864 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22866 o Minor features (bridge):
22867 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
22868 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
22870 o Minor features (geoip):
22871 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22874 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22875 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
22876 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
22877 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
22878 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
22879 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
22880 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22881 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
22882 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
22883 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
22884 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
22885 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
22886 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
22887 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
22888 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
22890 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
22891 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
22892 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22893 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
22894 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
22896 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22897 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
22898 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22899 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
22900 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22903 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22904 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
22905 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
22906 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
22907 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
22908 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
22909 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
22910 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22911 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
22912 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
22913 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
22916 o Distribution (systemd):
22917 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
22918 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
22919 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
22920 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
22921 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
22922 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
22923 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
22924 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
22925 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22929 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
22930 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
22932 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
22936 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
22937 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
22938 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
22939 us closer to a release candidate.
22941 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
22942 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
22943 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
22944 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
22945 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
22947 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
22948 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
22949 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
22950 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
22951 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
22952 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
22953 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
22954 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
22955 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
22959 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
22960 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
22961 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
22962 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
22963 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
22964 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
22965 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
22966 to build circuits".
22969 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
22970 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
22971 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
22972 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
22973 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
22974 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
22975 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
22976 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22978 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
22980 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
22981 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
22982 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
22983 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
22984 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
22985 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
22986 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
22987 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
22988 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
22989 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22992 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
22993 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
22994 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
22995 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
22997 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
22998 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
22999 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
23002 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
23003 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
23004 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
23005 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
23008 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23009 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23010 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23011 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23012 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23013 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23014 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23015 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23016 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23017 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23020 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23021 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23022 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23023 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23024 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23025 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23026 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23027 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23031 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23032 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23033 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23034 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23035 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23036 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23037 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23038 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23039 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23040 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
23041 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
23042 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
23043 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
23046 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23050 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
23051 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
23052 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
23053 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
23054 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
23055 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
23058 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
23059 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
23060 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
23061 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
23062 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
23063 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
23064 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
23065 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
23066 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
23067 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
23068 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
23069 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
23070 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23072 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23073 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23074 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23075 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23078 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
23079 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
23080 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
23082 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
23083 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
23084 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
23085 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
23086 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
23087 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
23088 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
23089 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
23090 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
23091 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
23092 router's identity is not forgeable.
23094 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23095 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
23096 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
23097 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
23098 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
23099 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
23100 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
23101 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
23102 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
23103 bugfix on every version of Tor.
23105 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
23106 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
23107 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
23108 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
23111 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23112 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
23113 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
23114 help diagnose bug 7164.
23115 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
23116 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
23117 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
23118 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
23119 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
23121 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
23122 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
23123 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
23124 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
23125 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
23126 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
23127 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
23129 o Minor features (security, memory management):
23130 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
23131 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
23132 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
23133 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
23134 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
23135 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
23137 o Minor features (security):
23138 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
23139 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
23140 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
23141 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
23143 o Minor features (build):
23144 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
23145 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
23146 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
23148 o Minor features (other):
23149 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23152 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23153 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
23154 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
23155 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23156 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23158 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23159 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
23160 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
23161 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
23162 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
23163 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
23164 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
23165 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
23166 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23167 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
23168 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
23169 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
23171 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23172 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
23173 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23174 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
23175 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
23176 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
23177 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
23178 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
23179 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
23180 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
23181 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23182 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
23183 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
23184 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
23185 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
23186 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
23187 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
23188 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
23191 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
23192 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
23193 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
23194 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
23195 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
23196 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
23197 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23199 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
23200 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
23201 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23202 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
23203 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23204 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
23205 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23206 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
23207 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
23209 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
23210 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
23212 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
23213 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
23215 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
23216 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
23217 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23218 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
23219 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
23220 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23221 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
23222 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
23223 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
23225 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
23226 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
23227 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
23228 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
23229 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
23230 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23231 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
23232 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
23233 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23234 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
23235 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
23236 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23237 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
23238 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
23239 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
23240 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
23241 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
23242 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23244 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
23245 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
23246 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
23247 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
23248 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
23249 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23250 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
23251 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
23252 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
23255 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23256 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
23257 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
23258 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
23259 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23261 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23262 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
23263 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
23264 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
23266 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
23267 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
23268 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
23269 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23270 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
23271 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
23272 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
23273 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
23275 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23276 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
23277 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
23278 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
23281 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
23282 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
23283 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
23284 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
23285 versions. Found by "skruffy".
23286 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
23287 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
23288 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
23291 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
23292 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
23293 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
23294 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
23297 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
23298 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
23299 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
23300 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
23302 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
23303 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
23304 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
23306 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
23307 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
23308 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23310 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23311 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
23312 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23313 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
23314 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
23318 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
23319 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
23320 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
23321 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
23324 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
23325 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
23326 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
23327 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
23329 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
23330 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
23332 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
23333 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
23334 caches don't get confused.
23337 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
23338 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
23339 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
23340 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
23341 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
23344 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
23345 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
23346 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
23347 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
23348 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
23349 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
23353 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
23354 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
23355 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
23356 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
23357 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
23358 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
23359 of RAM, and several others.
23361 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23362 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23363 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23364 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23365 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23367 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
23368 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23369 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23370 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23373 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23374 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23375 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23376 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23377 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23378 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23379 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23380 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23381 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23382 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23383 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23384 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23385 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23386 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23387 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23388 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23389 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23390 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23391 Resolves ticket 11438.
23393 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
23394 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
23395 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
23396 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
23397 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23398 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23400 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23401 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23402 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23404 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23405 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23406 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23408 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23409 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23410 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23411 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23413 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23414 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23415 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23417 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23418 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
23419 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23422 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
23423 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
23424 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
23425 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
23428 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23429 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23430 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23431 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23433 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23434 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
23435 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
23436 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23438 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23439 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23440 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23444 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
23445 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
23446 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
23447 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
23448 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
23449 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
23450 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
23451 the Linux sandbox code.
23453 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
23454 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
23455 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
23457 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
23458 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
23460 o Major features (security):
23461 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
23462 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
23463 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
23464 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
23465 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23466 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23467 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23468 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23470 o Major features (relay performance):
23471 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
23472 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
23473 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
23474 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
23475 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
23476 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
23477 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
23478 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
23479 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
23480 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
23482 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
23483 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
23484 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
23485 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
23486 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
23487 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
23488 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
23490 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
23491 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
23493 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
23494 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23495 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23496 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23497 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23498 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23499 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23500 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23501 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23502 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23503 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23504 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23505 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23506 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23507 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23508 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23509 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23510 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23511 Resolves ticket 11438.
23513 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
23514 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23515 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23516 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23518 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
23519 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
23520 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
23521 10267; patch from "yurivict".
23522 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
23523 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
23524 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
23525 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
23526 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
23527 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
23529 o Minor features (security):
23530 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
23531 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
23532 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
23533 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
23536 o Minor features (log verbosity):
23537 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
23538 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
23539 Resolves ticket 5286.
23540 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
23541 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
23542 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
23543 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
23544 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
23545 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
23546 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23547 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23548 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23550 o Minor features (relay):
23551 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
23552 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
23553 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
23555 o Minor features (controller):
23556 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
23557 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
23559 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
23560 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
23561 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
23563 o Minor features (bridge client):
23564 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
23565 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
23566 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
23568 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23569 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
23570 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
23571 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
23572 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
23573 still referenced by a live node_t object.
23575 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
23576 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
23577 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
23578 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
23580 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
23581 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
23582 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
23583 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
23586 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
23587 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23588 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23590 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
23591 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
23592 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
23593 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23594 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
23595 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
23596 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23598 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
23599 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
23600 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
23601 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23602 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
23603 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
23604 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23605 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
23606 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
23607 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
23608 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23609 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
23610 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
23613 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
23614 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
23615 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
23616 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
23617 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
23619 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
23620 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
23621 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
23624 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23625 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23626 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23628 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23629 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
23630 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23632 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23633 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
23634 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
23635 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23637 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
23638 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
23639 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23640 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
23641 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
23643 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
23644 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
23645 early. Fixes bug 10081.
23647 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
23648 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
23649 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23650 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
23651 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23652 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
23653 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
23654 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
23656 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
23657 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
23658 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
23659 should never have affected anyone in practice.
23661 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
23662 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
23663 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23665 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
23666 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
23667 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
23668 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
23669 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
23670 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
23671 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
23672 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
23673 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
23674 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
23675 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
23676 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
23677 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
23678 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
23680 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
23681 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
23682 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
23683 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
23684 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
23685 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
23686 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
23687 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
23691 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
23692 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
23693 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
23694 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23695 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
23696 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23697 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23698 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23700 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
23702 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23703 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
23704 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
23705 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
23706 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
23709 o Deprecated versions:
23710 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
23711 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
23712 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
23713 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
23716 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
23717 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
23718 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
23719 Patch from Dana Koch.
23722 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
23723 Resolves ticket 11070.
23726 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
23727 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
23728 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
23729 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
23730 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
23733 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
23734 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
23736 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
23737 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
23738 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
23739 streams attached to each circuit.
23741 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
23742 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
23743 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
23744 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
23745 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
23746 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
23747 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
23748 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
23749 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
23750 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
23751 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
23752 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
23753 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
23755 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
23756 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
23757 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23759 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
23760 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
23761 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
23762 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
23763 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
23764 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
23765 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
23766 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
23767 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
23769 o Minor features (other):
23770 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
23771 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
23772 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
23773 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
23774 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
23775 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
23776 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
23777 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
23778 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23781 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
23782 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
23783 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
23784 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
23785 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
23786 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
23787 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
23788 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23790 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23791 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
23792 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
23793 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
23794 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23795 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
23796 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
23797 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
23799 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
23800 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
23801 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
23802 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
23803 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
23804 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
23805 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
23806 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
23807 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
23808 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
23809 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
23810 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23812 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
23813 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
23814 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23815 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
23816 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
23817 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
23818 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
23819 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
23820 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23821 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
23822 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
23823 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
23824 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
23825 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
23827 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23828 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23830 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
23831 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
23832 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
23833 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
23834 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
23835 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
23836 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23837 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
23838 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
23839 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
23840 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
23841 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23842 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
23843 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
23845 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
23846 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
23847 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
23848 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23851 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
23852 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
23853 the rest of bug 10841.
23856 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
23857 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
23858 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
23859 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
23860 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
23861 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
23862 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
23863 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
23864 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
23865 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
23866 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
23867 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23868 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
23869 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
23870 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23872 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23873 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
23874 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
23876 o Test infrastructure:
23877 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
23878 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
23879 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
23880 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23883 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
23884 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
23885 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
23886 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
23888 o Major features (client security):
23889 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
23890 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
23891 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
23892 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
23893 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
23894 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
23897 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
23898 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
23899 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
23900 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23902 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23903 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
23904 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
23905 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
23906 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
23909 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
23910 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
23912 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
23913 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
23914 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
23915 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
23916 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
23917 GeoLite2 Country database.
23920 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
23921 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
23922 bugfix on every released Tor.
23923 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
23924 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
23925 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
23926 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23927 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
23928 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
23929 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23930 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
23931 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
23932 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23933 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
23934 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
23935 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23936 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
23937 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23939 o Documentation fixes:
23940 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
23941 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23944 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
23945 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
23946 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
23947 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
23948 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
23949 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
23950 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
23951 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
23953 o Major features (client security):
23954 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
23955 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
23956 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
23957 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
23958 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
23959 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
23960 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23961 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23962 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23963 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23964 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23965 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23967 o Major features (bridges):
23968 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
23969 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
23970 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
23971 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
23972 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
23973 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
23974 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
23975 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
23978 o Major features (other):
23979 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
23980 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
23981 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
23982 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
23983 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
23984 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
23985 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
23986 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
23987 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
23988 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
23989 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
23990 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
23993 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
23994 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
23995 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23996 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
23997 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
23998 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
23999 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24001 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24002 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24003 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24004 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24005 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24006 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24007 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24008 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24009 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24011 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24012 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24013 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24014 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24015 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24016 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24018 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24019 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24020 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24021 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24022 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24023 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24026 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24027 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
24028 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
24029 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
24030 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
24031 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
24032 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
24034 o Minor features (security):
24035 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24036 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24039 o Minor features (config options and command line):
24040 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
24041 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
24042 Implements ticket 10060.
24043 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
24044 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
24045 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
24047 o Minor features (controller):
24048 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
24049 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
24050 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
24051 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
24052 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
24055 o Minor features (build):
24056 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
24057 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
24058 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
24059 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
24060 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
24061 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
24062 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
24064 o Minor features (testing):
24065 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
24066 the unit test scripts.
24067 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
24068 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
24069 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
24070 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
24072 o Minor features (log messages):
24073 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
24074 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
24075 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
24076 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
24077 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
24078 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
24079 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
24080 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
24081 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24082 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24084 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24085 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24086 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24087 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24088 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24089 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24090 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24091 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24092 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24093 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24095 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24096 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
24097 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
24098 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
24101 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24102 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24103 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24104 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24105 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24107 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24108 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
24109 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
24110 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
24111 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
24112 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
24113 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
24115 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
24116 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
24117 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
24118 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
24119 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
24120 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
24121 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24122 Reported by "mr-4".
24123 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
24124 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
24125 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
24126 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24128 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
24129 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
24130 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
24131 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
24132 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
24133 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
24134 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
24135 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
24136 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
24137 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
24138 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24140 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24141 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
24142 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
24143 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
24144 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
24145 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
24146 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
24147 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
24148 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
24149 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
24151 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24152 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
24153 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
24154 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
24157 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24158 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
24159 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
24160 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
24161 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
24162 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
24164 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
24165 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24167 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
24168 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24169 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24170 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24172 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24173 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
24174 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
24175 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24176 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
24177 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
24178 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
24179 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24180 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
24181 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
24182 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
24183 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
24184 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
24185 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
24187 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24188 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24189 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24190 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24191 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24192 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24194 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24195 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24196 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24197 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24198 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24199 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24200 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24201 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24202 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24203 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24204 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24205 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24207 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24208 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24209 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24210 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24211 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24212 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24213 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24214 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24215 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24216 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24217 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24218 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24219 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24220 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24221 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24222 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24225 o Removed code and features:
24226 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
24227 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
24228 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
24229 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
24230 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
24231 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
24233 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
24234 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
24235 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
24236 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
24237 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
24238 part of a fix for bug 10841.
24240 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24241 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
24242 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
24243 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
24244 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
24245 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
24246 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
24247 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24248 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
24249 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
24250 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
24253 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
24254 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
24255 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
24256 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24257 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24259 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24260 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24261 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24262 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24263 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24264 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24265 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24268 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
24269 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
24270 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
24273 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
24274 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
24275 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
24276 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
24277 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
24278 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
24279 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
24281 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
24282 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
24285 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24286 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24287 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24288 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24289 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24290 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24291 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24292 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24294 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24295 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24296 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24297 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24298 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24299 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24302 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24303 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24304 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24305 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24306 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24309 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
24310 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
24311 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
24312 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
24313 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
24314 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
24315 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
24316 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
24318 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
24319 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
24320 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
24321 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
24322 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
24323 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
24324 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
24325 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
24326 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
24327 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
24328 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
24329 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
24330 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
24331 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
24332 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
24333 security, and privacy fixes.
24336 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
24337 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24338 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
24339 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
24342 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24343 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24344 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24345 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24346 them to solve bug 6033.)
24349 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24350 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24351 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24352 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24353 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24354 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24355 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24356 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24358 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24359 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24360 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24361 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24363 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
24364 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24365 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24366 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24367 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24368 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24369 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24370 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24371 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24372 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24373 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24374 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24376 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
24377 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24378 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24379 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24380 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24381 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24382 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24383 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24384 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24385 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24386 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24387 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24388 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24389 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24390 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24391 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24394 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24395 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24396 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24397 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24398 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24399 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24400 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24401 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24402 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24403 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24404 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24405 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24406 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24407 Implements part of proposal 222.
24409 o Minor features (other):
24410 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24411 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24412 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24413 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24414 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24415 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24416 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24417 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24418 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24420 o Documentation fixes:
24421 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24422 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24423 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24424 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24425 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24426 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24429 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
24430 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
24431 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
24432 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
24433 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
24434 release of the new branch.
24436 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
24437 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24438 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
24440 o Major features (security):
24441 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
24442 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
24443 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
24444 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
24445 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
24446 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
24447 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
24448 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
24449 Google Summer of Code.
24450 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24451 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24452 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24453 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24454 them to solve bug 6033.)
24456 o Major features (other):
24457 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
24458 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
24459 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
24460 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
24461 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
24463 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
24464 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
24465 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
24466 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
24467 Implements ticket 8530.
24468 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
24469 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
24472 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
24473 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
24474 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
24475 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
24476 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
24477 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24478 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24479 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24480 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24481 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24482 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24483 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24484 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24487 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
24488 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
24489 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
24490 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
24491 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
24492 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
24493 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
24494 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
24495 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
24496 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
24500 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
24501 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
24502 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
24503 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
24504 invoking the other functions it calls.
24505 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
24506 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
24507 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
24508 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
24510 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24511 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24512 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24513 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24514 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24515 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24516 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24517 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24518 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24519 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24520 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24521 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24522 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24523 Implements part of proposal 222.
24525 o Minor features (config options):
24526 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
24527 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
24528 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
24529 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
24530 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
24531 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
24532 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
24533 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
24534 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
24535 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
24536 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
24537 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
24538 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
24539 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
24540 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
24541 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
24542 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
24545 o Minor features (build):
24546 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
24547 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
24548 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
24549 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
24550 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
24553 o Minor features (other):
24554 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
24555 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
24556 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
24557 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
24558 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24559 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
24560 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
24561 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
24562 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
24563 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
24564 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
24565 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
24566 Closes ticket 8109.
24567 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24570 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24571 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24572 bugfix on every released Tor.
24573 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
24574 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
24575 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
24576 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
24577 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
24578 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
24580 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
24581 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
24582 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
24583 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24584 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
24585 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
24586 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
24587 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24589 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
24590 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
24591 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
24592 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
24593 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
24595 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
24596 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24598 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
24599 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
24600 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
24602 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
24603 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
24604 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
24605 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
24606 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24608 o Minor code improvements:
24609 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
24610 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
24612 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
24613 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
24614 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
24615 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
24616 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24618 o Removed features:
24619 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
24620 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
24621 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
24622 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
24624 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24625 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
24626 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
24627 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24628 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
24629 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
24630 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
24631 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
24632 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
24633 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
24634 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24635 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
24636 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
24637 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
24638 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
24639 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
24642 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
24643 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24644 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
24645 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
24646 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
24647 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
24648 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
24651 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
24652 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
24653 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
24654 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
24655 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
24656 Implements ticket 9574.
24659 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
24660 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
24661 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24662 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
24663 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
24664 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
24665 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
24666 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
24667 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24668 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
24669 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
24670 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
24674 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
24675 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
24676 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
24677 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
24679 o Minor fixes (config options):
24680 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
24681 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
24682 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
24683 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
24684 message is logged at notice, not at info.
24685 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
24686 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
24687 or we just won't work.)
24690 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
24691 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
24692 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
24693 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24696 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
24697 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24698 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
24701 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
24702 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
24703 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24704 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
24705 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24706 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
24707 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
24709 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
24710 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24711 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
24712 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
24715 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
24716 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
24717 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24718 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
24719 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
24720 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
24721 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
24722 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
24723 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
24724 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
24725 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24726 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
24727 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
24730 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24733 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
24734 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24735 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24736 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24739 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
24740 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
24741 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24744 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
24745 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
24746 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
24749 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
24750 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
24751 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24754 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
24755 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
24756 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
24757 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
24758 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
24759 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
24761 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
24762 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
24763 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
24764 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
24765 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
24766 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24768 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
24769 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
24770 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24773 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
24774 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
24775 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
24776 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
24777 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
24779 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
24780 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
24781 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
24782 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
24783 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
24784 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
24785 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
24787 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
24788 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
24789 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
24791 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
24792 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
24796 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
24797 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
24798 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
24800 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
24801 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
24802 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
24803 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
24804 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
24805 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
24807 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
24808 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
24809 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
24810 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
24811 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
24812 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
24813 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24816 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
24817 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
24818 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
24819 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
24820 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
24821 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
24822 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24823 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
24824 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24825 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
24826 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
24827 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24828 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
24829 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
24831 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
24832 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
24833 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
24834 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
24837 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24838 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
24839 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
24840 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
24841 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
24842 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
24844 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
24845 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
24849 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
24850 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
24851 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
24852 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
24853 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
24854 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
24855 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24857 o Removed documentation:
24858 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
24859 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
24861 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24862 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
24863 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
24864 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
24867 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
24868 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
24869 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
24870 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
24871 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
24872 variety of other issues.
24875 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
24876 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
24877 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
24878 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
24879 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
24880 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24881 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
24882 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
24884 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
24885 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
24886 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
24888 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
24889 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
24890 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
24891 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24892 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
24893 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
24894 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24896 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
24897 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
24898 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
24899 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
24900 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
24901 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
24902 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
24903 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24904 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
24905 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
24906 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
24907 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
24908 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24909 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
24910 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
24911 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
24912 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
24913 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
24914 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
24915 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
24916 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24918 o Major bugfixes (other):
24919 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
24920 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
24921 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
24922 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24925 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
24926 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
24927 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
24928 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
24930 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
24931 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
24933 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24935 o Minor features (build):
24936 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
24937 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
24939 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
24940 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
24942 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
24943 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
24944 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
24947 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24948 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
24949 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24950 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24951 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
24952 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
24953 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24954 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
24955 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
24956 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24957 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
24958 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
24959 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
24960 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
24963 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
24964 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
24965 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
24966 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
24967 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
24968 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
24969 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
24970 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
24971 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
24972 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
24973 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
24974 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
24975 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
24976 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24977 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24979 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24980 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
24981 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24982 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
24983 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
24984 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
24985 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
24986 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24987 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
24988 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
24989 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
24990 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
24991 Should help resolve bug 8235.
24992 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
24993 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
24994 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
24995 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24997 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
24998 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
24999 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
25000 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
25001 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
25002 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
25003 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
25004 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
25007 o Minor bugfixes (config):
25008 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
25009 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
25011 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
25012 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
25013 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25014 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
25015 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
25016 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
25017 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25018 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
25019 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
25020 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
25021 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
25022 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
25023 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25024 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
25025 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
25028 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
25029 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
25030 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
25031 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
25032 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
25033 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
25034 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
25035 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
25037 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
25038 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
25039 or at least make it more diagnosable.
25040 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
25041 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
25042 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
25043 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25045 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25046 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
25047 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
25048 the relaxed timeout log message.
25049 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
25050 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
25051 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
25053 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
25054 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
25055 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25056 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
25057 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25058 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
25059 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
25062 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25063 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
25064 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
25065 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
25066 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25067 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
25068 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25069 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
25070 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
25071 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
25072 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
25073 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
25074 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25075 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
25076 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
25077 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
25078 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25080 o Documentation fixes:
25081 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
25082 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
25083 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
25084 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
25085 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
25086 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
25087 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
25088 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
25091 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
25092 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
25096 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
25097 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
25098 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
25099 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
25101 o Major features (directory authorities):
25102 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
25103 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
25104 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
25105 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
25106 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
25107 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
25108 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
25109 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
25110 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
25111 Implements ticket 8151.
25113 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
25114 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
25115 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
25116 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
25117 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25119 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25120 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
25121 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
25122 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
25123 whether authentication information is present, causing all
25124 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
25125 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
25127 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
25128 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
25129 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
25130 bugs 1913 and 1992.
25131 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
25132 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
25133 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
25134 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
25135 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
25136 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
25137 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
25138 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
25139 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
25140 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
25141 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
25142 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
25143 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
25144 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
25145 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
25146 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
25147 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
25148 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
25151 o Minor features (portability):
25152 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
25153 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25154 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
25155 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
25156 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
25157 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
25158 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
25159 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25161 o Minor features (other):
25162 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
25163 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
25164 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
25165 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
25166 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
25167 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
25168 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
25169 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
25171 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25173 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25174 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
25175 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
25176 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
25177 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
25178 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25179 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
25180 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
25181 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
25182 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
25184 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
25185 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
25186 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
25187 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25189 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25190 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
25191 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
25192 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
25193 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
25194 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
25195 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
25197 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
25198 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
25199 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
25200 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
25201 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
25203 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
25204 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
25205 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
25206 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
25208 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25209 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
25210 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
25213 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
25214 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
25215 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25216 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
25218 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
25219 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25220 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
25221 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25223 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
25224 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
25225 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
25226 this is CID 718634.
25227 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
25228 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
25229 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
25230 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
25232 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
25233 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
25234 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25235 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
25236 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
25237 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
25238 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25240 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25241 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
25245 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
25246 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
25247 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
25248 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
25249 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
25252 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
25253 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
25254 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
25255 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25257 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
25258 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
25259 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25263 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
25264 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
25265 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
25266 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
25267 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
25268 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
25269 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
25270 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
25271 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
25272 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25273 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
25274 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
25275 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
25278 o Major features (relay):
25279 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
25280 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
25281 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
25282 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
25283 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
25284 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
25285 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
25287 o Major features (portability):
25288 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
25289 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
25290 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
25291 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
25292 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25295 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
25296 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
25297 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
25298 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
25299 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
25300 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
25302 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
25303 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
25304 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
25305 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
25306 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
25307 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
25308 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
25309 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
25311 o Minor features (path selection):
25312 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
25313 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
25314 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
25315 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
25316 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
25317 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
25318 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
25319 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
25320 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
25321 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
25322 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
25323 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
25324 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
25325 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
25326 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
25327 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
25328 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
25329 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
25330 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
25332 o Minor features (log messages):
25333 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
25334 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
25335 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
25336 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
25339 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
25340 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
25341 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25342 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
25343 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
25344 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
25345 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
25346 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
25347 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
25348 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25349 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
25350 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25352 o Build improvements:
25353 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
25354 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
25355 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
25356 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
25357 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
25358 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
25359 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
25360 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
25361 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
25362 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
25363 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
25364 than to perform erroneously.
25366 o Removed features:
25367 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
25368 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
25369 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
25371 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
25372 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
25373 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
25376 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25377 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
25379 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
25380 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
25384 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
25385 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
25386 work more robustly.
25389 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
25390 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
25391 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
25395 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
25396 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
25397 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
25398 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
25401 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
25402 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
25403 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
25404 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
25405 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
25406 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
25407 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
25408 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
25409 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
25410 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
25411 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
25412 closes ticket 7199.
25414 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
25415 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
25416 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
25417 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
25418 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
25419 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
25420 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
25421 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
25422 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
25423 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
25424 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
25426 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
25427 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
25428 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
25430 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
25431 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
25432 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
25434 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
25436 o Major features (better link encryption):
25437 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
25438 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
25439 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
25440 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
25441 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
25442 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
25445 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
25446 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
25447 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
25448 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
25449 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
25450 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
25451 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
25453 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
25454 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
25455 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
25456 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
25458 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
25461 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
25462 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
25463 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25466 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
25467 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
25468 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
25469 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
25470 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
25471 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
25472 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
25473 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25474 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25476 o Minor features (testing):
25477 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
25478 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
25479 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
25481 o Minor features (path bias detection):
25482 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
25483 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
25484 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
25485 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
25486 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
25487 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
25488 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
25489 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
25490 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
25491 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
25492 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
25493 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
25494 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
25495 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
25496 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
25497 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
25498 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
25499 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
25500 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
25501 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
25502 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
25503 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
25504 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
25505 detection capability loss.
25507 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25508 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
25509 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
25510 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
25511 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25512 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
25513 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
25514 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
25517 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25518 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
25519 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
25520 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
25521 and the different handshakes it supports.
25522 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
25523 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
25524 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
25525 any encoding is overkill.
25528 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
25529 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
25530 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
25531 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
25532 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
25533 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
25534 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
25535 and fixes a variety of other issues.
25537 o Major features (client resilience):
25538 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
25539 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
25540 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
25541 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
25542 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
25543 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
25544 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
25545 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
25546 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
25547 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
25548 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
25549 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
25550 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
25551 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
25552 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
25554 o Major features (IPv6):
25555 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
25556 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
25557 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
25558 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
25559 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
25560 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
25561 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
25562 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
25564 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
25565 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
25567 o Major features (geoip database):
25568 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
25569 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
25570 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
25571 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
25572 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
25573 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
25574 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
25575 Country database, as modified above.
25577 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
25578 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
25579 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
25580 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
25581 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
25582 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
25583 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
25584 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
25585 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
25586 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
25587 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
25588 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
25589 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
25590 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
25591 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
25592 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
25593 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
25596 o Major bugfixes (other):
25597 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
25598 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
25599 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
25600 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
25601 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
25602 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
25603 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
25604 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
25606 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
25607 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
25610 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
25611 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
25612 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
25613 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
25614 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
25615 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
25616 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
25617 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
25619 o Minor features (IPv6):
25620 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
25621 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
25622 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
25623 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
25624 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
25625 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
25626 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
25627 connect to the wrong addresses.
25628 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
25629 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
25630 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
25631 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
25635 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
25636 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
25637 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
25638 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
25639 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
25640 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
25641 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
25643 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
25644 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
25645 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
25648 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
25649 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
25651 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25652 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
25653 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
25654 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
25655 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
25658 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
25659 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
25660 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
25661 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
25662 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
25663 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
25664 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
25665 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
25667 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
25668 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
25669 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
25670 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
25671 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
25672 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
25673 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
25674 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
25675 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
25676 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
25677 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
25680 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25681 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25682 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25683 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25684 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25685 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25686 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25687 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25688 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25689 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25692 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
25693 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
25697 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
25698 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
25699 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
25700 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
25703 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
25704 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
25706 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25707 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25708 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25709 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25710 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25711 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25712 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25713 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25714 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25715 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25718 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
25720 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
25721 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
25722 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
25723 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
25724 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
25727 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
25728 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
25729 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25730 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
25731 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
25733 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
25734 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25735 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
25736 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
25737 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
25738 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
25739 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
25741 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
25742 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25743 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
25744 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
25745 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
25746 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25747 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
25748 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25750 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25751 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
25752 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
25753 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
25754 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
25755 present the same extensions.)
25758 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
25759 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
25760 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
25761 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
25762 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
25764 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
25765 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
25766 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
25767 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
25769 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
25770 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
25771 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
25772 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25774 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
25775 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
25776 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
25777 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
25778 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
25779 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
25780 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
25781 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
25782 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25784 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
25785 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
25786 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
25787 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
25788 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25791 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
25792 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
25793 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
25795 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25796 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
25798 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
25799 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
25803 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
25804 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
25805 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
25806 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
25809 o Major bugfixes (security):
25810 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
25811 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
25812 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
25814 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
25815 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
25816 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
25817 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25820 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
25821 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
25822 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
25823 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
25824 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
25825 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
25826 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
25827 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25830 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
25831 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
25832 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
25833 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25836 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
25837 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
25838 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
25839 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
25840 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
25841 scheduling algorithms.
25843 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25844 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
25845 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
25847 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25848 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
25849 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
25850 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
25851 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
25852 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
25853 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
25854 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
25855 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
25856 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
25857 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
25859 o Internal abstraction features:
25860 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
25861 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
25862 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
25863 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
25864 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
25865 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
25866 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
25867 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
25868 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
25869 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
25870 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
25871 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
25872 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
25873 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
25874 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
25875 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
25876 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
25878 o Required libraries:
25879 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
25880 strongly recommended.
25883 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
25884 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
25885 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
25886 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
25887 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
25888 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
25889 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
25890 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
25891 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
25893 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25894 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
25895 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
25896 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
25897 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
25898 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
25899 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
25900 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25901 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
25902 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
25903 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
25904 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
25905 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
25906 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
25907 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25910 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
25911 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
25912 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
25913 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
25914 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
25915 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
25916 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
25917 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
25918 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
25919 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
25920 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
25921 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25922 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
25923 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
25924 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25925 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
25926 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
25927 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
25928 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
25930 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
25931 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
25932 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
25933 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
25934 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
25935 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
25936 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
25939 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
25940 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
25941 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
25942 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
25944 o New directory authorities:
25945 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
25946 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
25948 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
25949 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
25950 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
25951 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
25952 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
25953 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
25954 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
25955 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
25956 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
25957 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
25958 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
25961 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
25962 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
25963 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
25965 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25966 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
25967 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
25968 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25969 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
25970 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
25971 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25972 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
25973 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
25975 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25976 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
25977 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
25978 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
25979 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
25980 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
25981 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
25982 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
25983 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
25984 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
25985 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
25986 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
25987 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25988 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
25989 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
25990 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
25991 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
25992 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
25994 o Documentation fixes:
25995 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
25998 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
25999 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26000 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
26001 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
26004 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26005 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26006 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26009 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26010 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26011 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26012 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
26013 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
26014 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
26015 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
26016 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26018 o Security features:
26019 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
26020 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
26021 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
26022 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
26023 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
26024 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
26025 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
26026 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
26027 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
26031 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
26032 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
26033 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
26036 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26037 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26038 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26039 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
26040 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26041 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
26042 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
26043 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
26044 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26045 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26046 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26047 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
26048 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
26049 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
26051 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
26052 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26053 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
26054 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
26055 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26057 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
26058 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
26059 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
26060 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26061 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
26062 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
26063 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26064 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26065 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26066 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26067 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26068 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26069 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
26070 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26071 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
26072 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
26073 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26074 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
26075 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
26076 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
26078 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26079 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
26080 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
26081 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
26082 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
26083 testable, and a little less fragile too.
26084 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
26085 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26087 o Documentation fixes:
26088 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26089 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
26093 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
26094 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26098 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26099 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26100 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26103 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26104 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26108 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
26109 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
26113 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26114 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26115 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26116 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26117 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26118 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26119 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26123 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
26124 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
26125 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
26126 log messages less noisy.
26129 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
26130 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
26134 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
26135 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
26136 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
26137 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
26138 last time we raised it).
26141 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
26142 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
26144 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
26145 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
26146 part of ticket 6736.
26147 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
26148 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
26149 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
26153 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
26154 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
26155 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
26156 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26157 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26159 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
26160 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26161 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
26162 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
26163 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26164 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
26165 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
26166 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26167 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
26168 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26169 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
26170 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26172 o Removed features:
26173 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
26174 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
26175 bunch of compatibility code.
26177 o Code refactoring:
26178 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
26179 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
26180 the ORPort and the DirPort.
26183 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
26184 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
26185 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
26186 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
26188 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
26189 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
26190 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
26192 o Major features (bridges):
26193 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
26194 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
26195 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
26198 o Major features (IPv6):
26199 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
26200 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
26201 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
26202 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
26203 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
26204 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
26205 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
26206 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
26207 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
26209 o Major features (build):
26210 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
26211 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
26212 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
26213 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
26214 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
26215 fixes by Jim Meyering.
26216 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
26217 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
26218 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
26220 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
26221 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
26222 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
26223 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
26224 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
26225 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
26226 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
26227 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
26228 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
26229 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
26230 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
26232 o Minor features (streamlining);
26233 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
26234 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
26236 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
26237 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
26238 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
26239 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
26240 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
26241 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26243 o Minor features (controller):
26244 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
26246 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
26247 Implements ticket 4971.
26249 o Minor features (IPv6):
26250 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
26251 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
26252 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
26253 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
26254 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
26256 o Minor features (log messages):
26257 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
26258 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
26259 Resolves ticket 6758.
26260 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
26261 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
26262 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
26263 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26264 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
26265 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
26266 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
26268 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
26269 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
26270 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
26271 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26272 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
26275 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26276 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
26277 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
26278 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
26279 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
26281 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
26282 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
26283 Implements ticket 5529.
26284 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
26285 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
26286 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
26287 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
26288 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
26289 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
26290 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
26291 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
26292 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
26293 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
26295 o New requirements:
26296 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
26297 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
26298 from a source distribution.)
26301 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
26302 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26303 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
26304 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
26305 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
26306 and cleans up other smaller issues.
26308 o Major bugfixes (security):
26309 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
26310 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
26311 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
26312 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
26313 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
26314 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
26315 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
26316 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
26317 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
26318 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
26319 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
26320 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
26321 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26322 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26323 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26324 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26328 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
26329 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
26330 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
26331 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26332 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
26333 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
26334 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
26335 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
26336 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
26337 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26340 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
26341 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
26342 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
26343 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
26344 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26345 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
26346 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
26347 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
26348 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
26349 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
26350 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
26352 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
26353 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
26354 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
26356 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
26357 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
26358 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
26359 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
26360 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26361 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
26362 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
26363 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
26364 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26365 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
26366 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26367 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
26368 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
26369 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
26372 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26373 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
26374 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
26375 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
26376 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26377 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
26378 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
26379 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
26380 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
26381 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
26382 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26383 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
26384 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
26385 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
26386 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26389 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
26390 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
26391 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
26392 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
26393 Resolves ticket 6732.
26396 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
26397 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
26398 attack that could in theory leak path information.
26401 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26402 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26403 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26404 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26405 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26406 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26407 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26408 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26409 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26410 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26411 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26412 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26413 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26414 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26417 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
26418 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26419 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
26420 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
26423 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
26424 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
26425 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26426 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26427 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26428 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26429 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26430 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26431 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26432 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26433 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26434 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26435 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26436 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26437 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26438 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26439 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26442 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
26443 a little more useful.
26444 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
26445 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26446 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
26447 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
26448 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
26449 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
26450 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
26453 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
26454 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26455 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
26456 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26457 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
26458 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
26462 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
26463 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
26464 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
26465 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
26466 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
26469 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
26470 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
26471 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
26474 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
26476 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
26478 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26479 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
26480 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
26481 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
26482 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
26485 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
26486 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26487 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
26488 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
26489 since the beginning of Tor.
26492 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
26493 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
26494 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
26495 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
26496 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
26497 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
26498 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
26499 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26500 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
26501 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26504 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
26505 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
26508 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
26509 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26510 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
26511 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
26514 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
26515 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26516 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
26517 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
26518 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
26519 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26521 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26522 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
26523 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
26524 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
26525 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
26526 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
26527 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26528 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
26529 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
26530 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
26531 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
26532 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
26533 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
26534 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26535 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
26536 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
26537 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26538 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
26539 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26541 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26542 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
26543 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
26545 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
26546 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26547 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
26548 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
26550 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
26551 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26552 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
26553 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26554 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
26555 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
26556 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26557 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
26558 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26559 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
26560 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26561 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
26562 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
26563 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26564 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
26565 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
26568 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
26569 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
26570 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
26571 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
26572 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
26575 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
26576 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
26577 options. Closes bug 4748.
26580 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
26581 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
26582 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
26583 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
26584 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
26588 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
26589 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
26591 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
26592 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
26593 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
26594 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
26595 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
26596 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
26597 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
26598 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
26599 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
26602 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
26603 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
26604 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
26605 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
26606 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
26607 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
26608 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
26609 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
26612 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
26613 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
26614 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
26615 case for flushing marked connections.
26616 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
26617 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26618 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
26619 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
26620 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
26621 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
26622 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26623 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
26624 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26625 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
26626 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
26627 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
26628 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26629 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
26630 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
26631 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
26632 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26633 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
26634 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26635 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
26636 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
26637 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
26638 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26639 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
26640 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
26642 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
26643 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26644 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
26648 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
26649 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
26650 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
26651 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
26652 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
26653 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
26654 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
26655 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
26656 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
26657 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
26658 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
26659 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
26660 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
26661 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
26662 Addresses ticket 5458.
26663 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26665 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26666 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
26667 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
26670 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
26671 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26672 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26676 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26677 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26678 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26679 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26680 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26681 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26682 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26683 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26684 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26685 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26686 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26689 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
26690 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
26693 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
26694 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
26697 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
26698 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26699 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26700 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
26701 that get us closer to a release candidate.
26703 o Major bugfixes (general):
26704 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26705 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26706 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26707 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26708 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26709 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26710 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26711 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
26712 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
26714 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
26715 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
26716 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
26717 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
26720 o Major bugfixes (clients):
26721 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
26722 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
26723 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
26724 which introduced predicted ports.
26725 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26726 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26727 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26728 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26729 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
26730 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
26731 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
26732 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
26733 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
26734 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
26735 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26736 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
26737 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
26739 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
26740 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
26741 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
26742 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
26743 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
26744 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
26745 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
26746 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
26747 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
26748 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
26749 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
26753 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
26754 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
26755 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
26756 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
26757 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
26758 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
26759 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
26760 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
26761 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
26762 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
26763 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
26764 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
26765 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
26766 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
26768 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
26769 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
26770 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
26771 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
26772 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
26773 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
26774 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
26775 sure. Closes bug 5139.
26776 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
26777 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
26778 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
26779 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
26780 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
26781 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
26782 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26784 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
26785 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
26786 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
26787 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
26788 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
26789 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
26790 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
26791 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
26792 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
26793 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
26794 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
26795 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
26796 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
26797 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
26798 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
26799 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
26800 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
26801 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26802 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
26803 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
26805 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26806 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
26807 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
26808 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
26809 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
26810 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
26811 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
26812 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
26813 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
26814 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
26815 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
26816 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
26817 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
26819 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
26820 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26821 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
26822 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
26824 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
26825 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
26826 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26827 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
26828 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
26829 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26830 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
26831 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
26832 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
26833 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
26835 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
26836 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
26837 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
26839 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26840 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
26841 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
26842 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
26843 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
26844 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
26845 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
26846 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
26847 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
26848 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
26849 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
26850 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26851 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
26852 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
26853 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
26854 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26855 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
26856 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
26857 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
26858 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
26860 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
26861 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
26862 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26863 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
26864 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
26865 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
26867 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
26868 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
26869 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
26871 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
26872 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
26873 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
26874 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26875 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
26876 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26878 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26879 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
26880 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
26882 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
26883 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
26884 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26885 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
26886 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
26887 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26888 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
26889 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
26890 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
26891 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26892 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
26893 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
26894 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
26895 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
26896 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
26897 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
26899 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
26900 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
26901 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26902 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
26903 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
26904 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26905 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
26906 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26907 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
26908 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
26909 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
26910 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26911 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
26914 o Documentation fixes:
26915 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
26916 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
26917 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
26918 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
26919 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
26920 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
26923 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
26924 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
26928 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
26929 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
26930 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
26931 and fixes several crash bugs.
26933 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
26934 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
26935 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
26936 those packages and upgrade anyway.
26938 o Directory authority changes:
26939 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
26940 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
26944 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
26945 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
26946 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
26947 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
26948 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
26949 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
26950 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
26951 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
26952 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
26953 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
26954 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
26955 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
26956 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
26957 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
26958 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
26959 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
26960 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
26961 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
26962 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
26963 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
26964 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
26965 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
26966 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
26967 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
26968 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
26969 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
26970 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
26973 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
26974 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26975 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
26976 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
26978 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
26979 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
26981 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
26982 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
26983 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
26984 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
26985 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
26986 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
26987 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
26988 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
26991 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
26992 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
26993 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
26994 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
26995 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
26996 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
26997 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
26998 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
26999 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27000 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27001 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27002 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27003 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27004 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27005 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27006 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27007 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27008 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27009 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27010 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27011 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27012 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27013 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27014 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27015 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27016 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27017 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27018 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27019 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27020 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27021 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27022 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27023 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27024 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27025 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27026 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27027 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27028 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27029 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27030 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27031 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
27032 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27033 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27034 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27035 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27036 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27038 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
27039 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27040 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27041 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27042 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27043 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27044 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27045 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27046 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27047 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27048 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27049 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27050 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27051 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27052 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27055 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27056 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27057 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27058 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27060 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27063 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27064 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27065 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27066 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27067 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27068 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27069 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27072 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
27073 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
27074 the development branch build on Windows again.
27076 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27077 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
27078 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
27079 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
27080 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
27081 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
27082 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
27083 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
27084 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
27085 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
27086 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
27087 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
27088 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27089 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
27090 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
27092 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27093 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
27094 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
27095 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27096 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
27097 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27098 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
27099 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27100 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
27101 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
27102 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
27103 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27106 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
27107 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
27108 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
27109 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
27110 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
27111 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
27112 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
27113 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
27114 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
27116 o Removed features:
27117 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
27118 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
27119 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
27120 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
27124 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
27125 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
27126 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
27127 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
27129 o Directory authority changes:
27130 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27134 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27135 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27136 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27137 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27139 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
27140 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
27141 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
27142 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
27143 documents entirely.
27144 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
27145 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
27146 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27148 o Major features (performance):
27149 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
27150 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
27151 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
27152 much faster than other AES implementations.
27154 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
27155 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
27156 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
27157 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
27158 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
27159 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
27160 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27161 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27162 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27163 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27164 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27165 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
27166 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
27167 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27168 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27169 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
27170 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
27171 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27173 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
27174 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
27175 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
27176 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27177 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
27178 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27179 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
27180 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
27181 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
27183 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
27184 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
27185 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27186 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
27187 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
27188 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27191 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
27192 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
27193 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
27194 please let us know about it.
27195 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
27196 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
27197 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
27198 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
27199 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27200 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27201 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
27202 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
27204 o Default torrc changes:
27205 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
27206 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
27208 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
27209 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
27210 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
27213 o Removed features:
27214 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
27215 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
27216 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
27217 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
27219 o Code refactoring:
27220 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
27221 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
27222 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
27223 it would be a bad idea to start.
27226 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
27227 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
27228 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
27229 that get us closer to a release candidate.
27231 o Directory authority changes:
27232 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27235 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27236 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27237 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27238 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27239 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27240 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27241 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
27242 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27243 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27244 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27245 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27246 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27247 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27248 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27249 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27250 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27252 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27253 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
27254 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
27255 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
27256 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
27257 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27258 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
27259 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
27260 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27261 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
27262 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
27263 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
27265 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
27266 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
27267 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27268 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
27269 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27271 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27272 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
27273 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
27274 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
27275 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
27276 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27277 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27278 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27279 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27280 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27281 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27282 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27283 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27284 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27285 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27286 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
27287 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
27288 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
27289 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
27290 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
27291 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
27292 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
27295 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27296 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
27297 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27298 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
27299 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
27300 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
27301 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
27302 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
27303 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27304 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
27305 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
27306 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
27307 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
27308 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
27309 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
27310 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
27311 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
27314 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
27315 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
27316 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27319 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
27320 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
27321 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
27322 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
27325 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27326 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27328 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
27329 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
27330 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
27331 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27332 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
27333 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
27334 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
27335 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27336 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
27337 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
27338 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
27339 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27342 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
27343 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
27344 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
27345 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
27346 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
27347 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
27348 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27351 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27352 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27353 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27354 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27355 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
27356 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
27357 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
27358 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
27359 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
27360 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
27362 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
27363 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
27364 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
27365 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
27366 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27367 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27368 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27369 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
27370 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
27373 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27374 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
27375 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
27379 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
27380 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
27381 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
27382 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
27383 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
27384 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
27387 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
27388 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
27389 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
27390 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
27391 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
27392 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
27393 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
27394 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
27396 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
27397 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
27398 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
27399 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
27400 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
27401 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
27402 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
27403 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
27405 o Major security workaround:
27406 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27407 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27408 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27409 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27410 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27411 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27412 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27413 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27414 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27415 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27416 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27419 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27420 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27421 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27422 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27423 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27424 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27425 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27426 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27427 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
27428 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
27429 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
27430 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
27431 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
27433 o Minor features (controller):
27434 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
27435 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
27436 file. Resolves bug 1101.
27437 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
27438 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
27439 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
27440 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
27441 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
27442 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
27444 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
27445 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
27446 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
27447 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
27448 part of ticket 3457.
27449 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
27450 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
27451 circuit-status' control-port command.
27453 o Minor features (directory authorities):
27454 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27455 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27456 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27457 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27459 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
27460 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
27461 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
27462 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
27463 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
27464 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
27465 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
27467 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27468 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27470 o Minor features (other):
27471 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
27472 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
27473 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
27474 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
27475 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
27476 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
27477 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
27478 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
27480 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
27481 them from the other auths.
27482 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
27483 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
27484 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
27485 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
27486 the 0.2.3.x series.
27487 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27489 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27490 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
27491 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
27492 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
27493 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
27494 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
27495 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
27496 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
27497 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
27498 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
27499 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27500 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
27501 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
27502 be disabled using the new
27503 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
27504 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27505 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
27506 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
27507 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
27508 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
27509 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
27510 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
27511 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
27512 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
27513 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
27514 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
27516 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
27517 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
27518 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
27521 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
27522 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27523 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
27525 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27526 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27527 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
27528 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
27529 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27530 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
27531 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27533 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
27534 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27535 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27536 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27537 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
27538 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
27539 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
27540 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
27542 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
27543 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
27544 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27545 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
27546 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
27547 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
27548 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
27549 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
27550 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
27553 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27554 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27555 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27556 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27557 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27558 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27559 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27560 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27561 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27562 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
27563 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
27564 accidentally been reverted.
27565 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
27566 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
27567 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
27568 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
27569 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
27570 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
27571 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27572 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
27573 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
27574 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27575 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
27576 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
27577 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
27578 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
27579 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27580 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
27581 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27582 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
27583 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27586 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27587 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27588 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27589 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27590 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27591 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27592 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27594 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27595 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
27596 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
27597 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
27598 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
27599 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
27600 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
27602 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
27603 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
27604 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
27605 invalid value, rather than just -1.
27606 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
27607 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
27608 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
27609 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
27610 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
27611 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
27612 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
27616 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
27617 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
27618 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27620 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27621 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27622 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27623 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27624 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27625 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27626 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27627 (which Tor does not do by default).
27629 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27630 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27631 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27632 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27633 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27635 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
27639 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27640 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27641 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27642 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27645 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
27646 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
27647 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
27648 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
27649 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
27650 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
27651 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
27652 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
27653 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27654 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
27655 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27658 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27661 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
27662 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
27663 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27665 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27666 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27667 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27668 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27669 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27670 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27671 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27672 (which Tor does not do by default).
27674 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27675 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27676 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27677 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27678 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27680 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
27681 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
27682 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
27685 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
27686 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
27687 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
27688 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
27689 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
27691 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
27692 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
27695 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27696 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27697 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27698 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27699 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
27700 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
27701 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
27702 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
27704 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
27705 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
27706 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
27707 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
27708 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
27709 close based on processing a cell on it.
27710 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27711 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27712 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27713 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27714 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
27715 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
27716 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27717 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
27718 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
27719 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
27720 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
27721 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
27722 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
27723 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
27724 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
27727 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
27728 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
27729 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
27730 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
27731 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
27732 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
27733 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
27735 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
27736 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
27737 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
27738 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
27739 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
27740 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27741 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
27742 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
27743 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27744 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
27745 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
27746 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
27747 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
27748 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27749 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
27750 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
27751 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
27752 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
27753 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27754 Reported by "troll_un".
27755 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
27756 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27757 Reported by "troll_un".
27758 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27759 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
27760 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
27761 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
27764 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
27765 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
27766 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
27767 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
27768 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
27769 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
27770 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
27771 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
27772 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
27773 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
27774 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27776 o Packaging changes:
27777 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
27778 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
27781 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
27782 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
27783 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
27784 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
27785 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
27787 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
27788 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
27790 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27791 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27792 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27793 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27794 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27795 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27796 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27797 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27798 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27801 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27804 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
27805 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
27806 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
27807 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
27808 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
27809 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
27810 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
27813 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
27814 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
27815 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
27816 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
27817 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
27818 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
27819 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
27820 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
27821 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
27822 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
27823 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
27824 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
27825 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
27826 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
27827 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
27828 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
27829 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
27830 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
27831 Resolves ticket 4526.
27832 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
27833 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
27834 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
27835 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
27836 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
27837 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
27838 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
27839 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
27840 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
27841 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
27842 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
27843 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
27844 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
27845 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
27846 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
27847 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
27850 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
27851 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
27852 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
27853 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
27854 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
27855 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
27856 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
27857 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
27858 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
27859 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
27861 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
27862 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
27863 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
27864 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
27865 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
27866 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
27867 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
27868 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
27869 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
27871 o Minor features (new/different config options):
27872 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
27873 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
27874 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
27875 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
27876 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
27877 Implements issue 933.
27878 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
27879 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
27880 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
27881 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
27882 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
27883 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
27884 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
27885 appending to the list.
27886 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
27887 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
27888 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
27889 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
27891 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
27892 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
27893 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
27894 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
27895 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
27896 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
27897 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
27898 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
27901 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
27902 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
27903 Resolves ticket 2474.
27904 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
27905 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
27906 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
27907 Required by fix for bug 3460.
27908 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
27909 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
27910 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
27911 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
27912 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
27913 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
27914 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
27915 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
27916 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
27918 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27919 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
27920 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
27922 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
27924 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
27925 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
27927 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
27928 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
27929 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27930 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
27931 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
27932 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
27933 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
27935 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
27936 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
27937 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27938 Reported by "troll_un".
27939 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
27940 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27941 Reported by "troll_un".
27942 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
27943 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
27944 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
27945 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
27947 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27948 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
27950 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
27951 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
27952 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
27953 with help from wanoskarnet.
27954 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
27955 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
27958 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
27959 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
27960 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
27961 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27963 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
27964 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
27965 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
27966 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
27967 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
27968 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
27969 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
27970 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
27973 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
27974 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
27975 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
27976 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
27977 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
27978 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
27979 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
27980 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
27981 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
27984 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
27985 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
27986 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
27987 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
27989 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27990 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27991 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27992 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27993 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
27994 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
27995 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
27996 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
27997 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
27998 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
27999 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
28000 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
28001 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
28002 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
28003 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
28004 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
28005 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
28006 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
28007 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
28008 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
28009 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
28010 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
28011 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
28012 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
28015 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
28016 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
28017 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
28018 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
28019 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
28020 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28021 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
28022 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
28025 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28026 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
28027 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28028 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28029 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28030 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28031 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28032 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28033 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28034 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
28035 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
28036 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
28037 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
28038 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
28039 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
28041 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
28042 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
28043 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28044 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28045 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28046 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28047 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28048 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28049 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
28050 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
28051 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
28052 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
28053 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
28054 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28055 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28056 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28057 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28059 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28060 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
28061 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
28062 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
28063 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28064 Found by frosty_un.
28065 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
28066 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
28067 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
28069 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
28070 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
28071 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
28073 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
28074 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
28076 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
28077 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28080 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28081 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28082 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28083 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28084 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28085 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28086 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28087 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28088 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28089 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28090 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
28091 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
28092 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
28093 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
28095 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
28096 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
28097 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28099 o Packaging changes:
28100 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28101 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28103 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28104 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
28105 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
28106 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
28107 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
28108 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
28109 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
28110 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
28111 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
28114 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
28116 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
28117 ./src/test/bench binary.
28118 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
28119 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
28122 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
28123 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
28124 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
28128 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
28129 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
28130 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
28131 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
28132 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
28133 close based on processing a cell on it.
28134 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
28135 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
28136 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28137 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
28138 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
28139 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
28140 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
28141 cells were introduced.
28144 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28145 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28148 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
28149 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
28150 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
28151 users. Everybody should upgrade.
28153 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
28154 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
28157 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
28158 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
28159 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
28160 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
28161 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
28162 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
28164 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28165 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28166 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28167 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28168 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28169 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28170 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28171 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28172 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28173 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28174 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28175 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28176 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28177 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28178 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28179 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28180 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28181 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28184 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28185 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
28186 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
28187 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
28188 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
28189 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
28190 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
28191 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
28192 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
28193 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
28194 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
28195 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
28196 Partly fixes bug 3825.
28197 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28198 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28199 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28200 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28201 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28202 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28203 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28205 o Major bugfixes (other):
28206 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28207 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28208 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28209 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28210 Found by "frosty_un".
28211 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
28212 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
28213 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
28214 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
28215 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
28216 immensely in tracking this bug down.
28217 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28218 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28221 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28222 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28223 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28224 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28225 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28226 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28227 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
28228 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
28229 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28230 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28231 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28232 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28233 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28234 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28235 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28236 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28237 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28238 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28239 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28240 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28241 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28243 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28244 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
28245 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
28246 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28247 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
28248 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
28249 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
28250 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
28251 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
28252 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
28253 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
28256 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
28257 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
28258 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
28259 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
28260 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28261 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28262 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28263 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28264 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
28265 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
28266 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
28267 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
28268 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
28269 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28271 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28272 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
28273 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
28274 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
28275 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
28276 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
28277 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
28278 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
28281 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
28282 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
28283 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
28285 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
28286 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
28287 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
28288 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
28289 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
28290 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
28291 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
28292 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
28293 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
28294 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
28295 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
28296 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
28297 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
28299 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
28300 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
28301 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
28302 currently connected to them.
28304 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
28305 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
28306 remain; see for example proposal 188.
28308 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28309 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28310 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28311 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28312 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28313 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28314 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28315 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28316 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28317 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28318 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28319 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28320 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28321 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28322 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28323 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28324 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28325 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28328 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
28329 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28330 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28331 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28332 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28333 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28334 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28335 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28336 when bridges were introduced.
28337 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28338 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28339 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28340 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28341 Found by "frosty_un".
28344 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28345 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28347 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28348 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28349 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28350 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28351 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28352 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28353 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28356 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28357 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28358 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28359 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28360 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28361 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28362 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28363 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28364 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28365 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28366 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28367 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28368 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28369 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28370 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28371 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28372 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28373 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28375 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
28376 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28377 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28378 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28379 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28380 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28381 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28382 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28383 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28384 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28385 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28386 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28389 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
28390 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
28391 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
28392 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28395 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
28396 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28397 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28398 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28399 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28401 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28402 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
28403 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
28404 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
28405 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
28406 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
28407 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
28408 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
28409 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
28410 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28412 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28413 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28414 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28415 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28416 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28417 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28418 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28419 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28420 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28421 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28422 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28423 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28424 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28425 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28426 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28427 Found by "frosty_un".
28428 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
28429 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
28430 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
28431 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
28432 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
28433 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28434 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
28435 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
28436 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
28437 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
28438 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
28439 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
28440 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28441 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
28442 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
28443 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
28444 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
28445 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
28446 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
28448 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28449 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
28450 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
28451 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
28452 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
28453 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
28454 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
28455 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
28457 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
28458 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
28459 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
28460 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
28461 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
28462 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
28463 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
28464 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
28465 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
28466 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
28467 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
28468 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
28470 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
28471 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28472 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
28473 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28474 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
28475 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28476 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
28477 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
28478 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
28480 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
28482 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
28483 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
28484 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
28485 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28486 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
28487 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
28488 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
28489 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28491 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
28492 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
28493 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
28494 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
28495 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
28497 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28498 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28499 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28500 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
28501 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28504 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
28505 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
28506 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
28507 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
28508 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
28511 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28512 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28513 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28514 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28515 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28516 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28517 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28518 when bridges were introduced.
28521 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
28522 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
28523 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28525 o Major features (networking):
28526 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
28527 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
28528 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
28529 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
28530 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
28534 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28535 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28536 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28538 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
28539 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28540 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28541 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28542 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28544 o Minor features (diagnostics):
28545 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
28546 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
28549 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
28550 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
28551 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
28552 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
28553 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
28554 listed in the network consensus and republish.
28556 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28557 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28558 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28559 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28561 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
28562 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28563 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28564 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28565 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28566 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28567 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28568 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28569 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28570 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28571 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28573 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28574 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28575 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28576 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28577 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28578 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28579 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28580 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28581 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28582 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28584 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28585 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28586 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28587 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28588 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28589 fixes part of bug 2442.
28590 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28591 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28592 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28594 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28595 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28596 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28597 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28598 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28600 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28601 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28602 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28603 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28604 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28607 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
28608 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
28609 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
28613 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
28614 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
28615 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
28616 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
28617 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
28618 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
28619 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
28622 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
28623 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
28624 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
28625 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
28626 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
28627 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
28628 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
28631 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
28632 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
28633 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
28634 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
28635 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
28636 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
28637 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
28638 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
28639 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28641 o Code refactoring:
28642 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
28643 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
28646 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
28647 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
28648 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
28649 reachable from Iran again.
28652 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28653 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28654 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28656 o Minor features (security):
28657 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28658 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28659 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28660 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28661 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28662 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28663 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28664 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28665 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28666 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28669 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28670 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28671 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28672 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28673 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28674 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28675 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28676 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28677 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28679 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
28680 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
28681 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
28682 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
28683 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
28684 raised by bug 3898.
28685 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28686 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28687 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28688 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28689 fixes part of bug 2442.
28690 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28691 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28692 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28694 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28695 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28696 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28697 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28698 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28701 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
28702 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
28703 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28704 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28705 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28706 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28709 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
28710 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
28711 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
28712 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
28713 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
28714 bufferevent-based networking backend.
28716 o Major features (stream isolation):
28717 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
28718 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
28719 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
28720 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
28721 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
28722 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
28723 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
28724 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
28725 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
28726 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
28727 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
28728 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
28729 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
28730 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
28732 o Major features (other):
28733 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
28734 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
28735 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
28736 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
28737 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
28738 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
28739 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
28740 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
28741 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
28742 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
28743 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
28744 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
28745 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
28747 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28748 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
28750 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
28751 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
28752 Fixes part of bug 3752.
28753 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
28754 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
28755 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
28756 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
28757 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
28758 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
28759 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
28760 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
28761 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
28762 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
28763 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
28764 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
28765 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
28766 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
28767 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
28768 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
28769 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
28771 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
28772 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
28773 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
28774 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
28775 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
28776 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
28779 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
28780 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
28781 user. Implements ticket 1692.
28782 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
28783 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
28784 best copy data out of a buffer.
28785 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
28786 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
28787 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
28789 o Minor features (build compatibility):
28790 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
28791 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
28792 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
28794 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
28795 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28797 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
28798 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
28799 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
28800 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
28801 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
28802 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
28803 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28805 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
28806 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
28807 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
28808 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
28809 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
28810 raised by bug 3898.
28811 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
28812 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
28813 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
28816 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
28817 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
28818 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
28819 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
28820 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
28821 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
28822 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
28823 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
28824 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
28825 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
28826 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
28827 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28828 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
28829 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
28830 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
28831 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
28832 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
28833 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
28834 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
28837 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28838 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
28839 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
28843 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
28844 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
28845 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
28846 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
28847 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
28848 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
28851 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
28852 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
28853 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
28854 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
28855 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
28856 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
28857 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
28858 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
28859 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
28860 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
28862 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
28863 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
28864 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
28865 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
28866 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
28867 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
28868 many many other features and bugfixes.
28871 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
28872 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
28873 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
28876 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
28877 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
28878 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
28879 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
28880 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
28881 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
28882 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
28883 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
28886 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28889 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
28890 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
28891 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28892 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
28893 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
28894 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
28895 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
28896 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
28897 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
28898 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
28899 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
28900 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
28901 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
28902 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28903 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
28904 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
28905 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
28906 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
28910 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
28911 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
28912 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
28913 up a variety of recently introduced features.
28916 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
28917 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
28918 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
28919 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
28920 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
28921 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
28922 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
28923 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
28924 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
28925 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
28926 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
28927 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
28928 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
28929 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
28930 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
28931 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
28933 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28934 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
28935 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
28936 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
28937 order. Fixes bug 2798.
28938 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
28939 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
28940 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
28941 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
28942 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
28943 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
28947 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
28948 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
28949 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
28950 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
28952 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
28953 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
28954 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
28955 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
28956 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
28957 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
28958 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
28959 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
28960 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
28961 Implements ticket 3264.
28962 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
28963 implements ticket 3439.
28965 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28966 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
28967 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
28968 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
28969 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
28970 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
28971 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
28972 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
28973 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
28974 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
28975 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
28976 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
28977 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
28978 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
28979 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
28980 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
28981 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
28982 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
28983 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
28984 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
28985 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
28986 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
28987 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
28988 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
28989 fails. Spotted by coverity.
28990 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
28991 present. Found by coverity.
28992 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
28993 a directory cache that provides them.
28995 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28996 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
28997 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
28998 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
28999 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
29000 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
29002 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
29003 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
29004 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29005 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29006 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29007 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29008 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
29009 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
29011 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29012 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
29013 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
29014 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
29015 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
29016 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
29017 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
29019 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
29023 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
29024 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
29025 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
29028 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
29029 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
29030 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
29031 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
29034 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
29035 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
29036 discovered by katmagic.
29037 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
29038 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
29039 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
29040 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29041 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
29042 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
29043 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
29044 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29045 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
29046 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
29047 fixes part of bug 3465.
29048 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
29049 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
29053 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29056 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
29057 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
29058 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
29059 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
29060 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
29063 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
29064 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
29065 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
29066 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
29067 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
29070 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
29071 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
29072 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
29073 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
29074 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
29075 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
29078 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
29079 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
29080 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
29081 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29082 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29083 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
29084 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
29085 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
29086 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
29087 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
29088 fixes part of bug 3407.
29089 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29090 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
29091 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
29092 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
29093 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
29094 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
29095 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
29096 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
29097 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
29098 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
29100 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
29101 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
29102 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
29103 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
29106 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29108 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29109 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
29110 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
29112 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
29114 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
29117 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
29118 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
29119 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
29120 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
29121 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
29122 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
29126 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
29127 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
29128 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
29129 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29130 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
29131 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
29132 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
29134 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
29135 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
29136 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
29137 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
29138 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
29139 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
29140 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
29141 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
29142 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
29143 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
29144 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
29145 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
29146 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
29147 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
29148 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
29149 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
29150 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
29151 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
29152 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
29156 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
29157 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
29158 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
29159 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
29160 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
29161 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
29162 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
29163 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
29164 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
29168 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
29169 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
29170 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
29172 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
29174 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
29175 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
29176 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
29177 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
29178 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29179 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
29180 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
29181 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
29182 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
29184 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
29185 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29186 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
29187 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
29188 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
29189 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
29191 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
29192 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
29194 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
29195 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
29196 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29199 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
29200 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
29201 Resolves ticket 3252.
29202 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
29203 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
29204 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
29205 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
29206 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
29207 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29210 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
29211 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
29214 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
29215 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
29216 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
29219 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
29220 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29221 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
29222 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
29223 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
29226 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
29227 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29228 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
29229 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
29230 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
29231 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
29232 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
29233 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
29234 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
29238 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
29239 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
29240 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
29241 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
29242 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
29244 o Security/privacy fixes:
29245 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
29246 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
29247 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
29248 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
29249 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
29250 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
29251 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
29252 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
29253 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
29254 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
29255 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
29256 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29257 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
29258 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
29259 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29262 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
29263 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
29264 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
29265 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
29266 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
29267 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
29268 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
29269 part of ticket 3076.
29270 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
29271 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
29272 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
29276 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
29277 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
29278 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
29279 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
29280 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
29281 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
29282 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
29283 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
29285 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
29286 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
29287 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
29288 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
29289 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
29290 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
29291 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
29292 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
29293 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
29294 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
29295 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
29296 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
29297 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29300 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29301 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29302 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29303 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
29304 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
29305 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
29306 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
29308 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
29309 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
29310 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
29311 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
29312 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
29313 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
29314 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
29315 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
29316 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
29317 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
29318 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
29319 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
29320 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
29321 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
29322 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
29323 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
29325 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
29326 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
29328 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
29329 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
29331 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
29332 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
29334 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
29335 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
29336 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29338 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
29339 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29340 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29341 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29342 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29343 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29344 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29345 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29346 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29347 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
29348 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
29350 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
29351 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
29352 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
29353 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
29354 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
29355 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29356 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
29357 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
29358 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
29359 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
29360 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29361 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
29362 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
29365 o Removed features:
29366 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
29367 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
29368 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
29372 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
29373 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
29374 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
29375 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
29376 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
29377 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
29379 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
29380 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
29381 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
29384 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
29385 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
29386 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
29387 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
29388 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
29389 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
29390 zero-copy transports where available.
29391 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
29392 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
29393 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
29394 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
29395 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
29396 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
29397 debug it as it breaks.
29398 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
29399 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
29400 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
29401 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
29402 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
29403 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
29404 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
29405 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
29406 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
29407 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
29408 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
29409 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
29410 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
29411 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
29412 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
29413 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
29414 PortForwarding option.
29415 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
29416 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
29417 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
29418 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
29419 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
29420 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
29421 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
29424 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
29425 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
29426 Implements enhancement 1668.
29427 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
29429 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
29430 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
29431 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
29432 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
29433 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
29434 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
29435 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
29437 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
29438 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
29439 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
29440 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
29441 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29442 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
29443 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
29445 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
29446 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
29447 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
29448 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
29449 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
29450 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
29451 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
29453 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
29454 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29455 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29456 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29457 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29458 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29459 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29460 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29461 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29462 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
29463 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
29464 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29465 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29466 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29467 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29470 o Minor features (controller):
29471 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
29472 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
29473 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
29474 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
29475 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
29476 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
29477 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
29480 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
29481 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
29482 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
29483 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
29484 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
29485 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
29486 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
29487 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
29489 o Minor packaging issues:
29490 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
29491 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
29493 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29494 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
29495 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
29496 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
29497 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
29498 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
29499 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
29500 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
29501 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
29502 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
29503 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
29504 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
29505 our library structure used to force them to link it.
29507 o Removed features:
29508 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
29509 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
29510 are no longer in use as servers.
29512 o Documentation fixes:
29513 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
29514 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
29515 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
29519 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
29520 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
29521 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
29522 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
29523 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
29524 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
29525 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
29526 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
29527 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
29528 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
29531 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
29532 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
29533 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
29534 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
29535 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
29536 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
29537 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
29538 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
29539 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
29540 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29541 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
29542 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
29543 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29544 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
29545 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
29546 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
29548 o Security and stability fixes:
29549 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
29550 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
29551 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
29552 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
29553 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
29554 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
29555 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
29556 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
29557 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
29558 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
29559 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
29560 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
29561 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29562 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
29563 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
29564 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
29567 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
29568 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
29569 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
29570 contributions to the network.
29572 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
29573 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
29574 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
29575 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
29576 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
29577 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
29578 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
29579 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
29580 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
29581 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
29582 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
29583 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
29584 connections to directory servers.
29585 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
29586 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
29587 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
29588 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
29589 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
29590 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
29591 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
29592 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
29593 information, or fetch directory information.
29594 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
29595 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
29596 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
29597 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
29598 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
29599 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
29600 unless you really want your Tor to break.
29601 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
29602 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
29603 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
29604 - When StrictNodes is 1:
29605 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
29606 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
29607 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
29608 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
29609 reachability self-tests.
29610 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
29611 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
29612 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
29613 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
29614 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29615 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
29616 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
29618 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
29619 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29620 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
29621 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
29622 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
29623 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29624 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
29625 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
29626 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
29627 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
29628 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
29631 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
29632 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
29633 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
29634 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
29635 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
29636 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29637 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
29638 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
29639 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
29640 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
29641 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
29642 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29643 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
29644 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
29645 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29646 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
29647 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
29649 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
29650 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
29651 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
29652 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
29653 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29654 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
29655 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29656 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
29657 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
29658 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
29659 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
29660 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
29661 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
29662 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
29663 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
29664 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29665 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
29666 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
29667 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
29668 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
29671 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
29672 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
29673 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
29674 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
29675 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
29676 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
29677 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
29678 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
29679 Required by fix for bug 3000.
29680 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
29681 by fix for bug 3000.
29682 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
29683 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
29685 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29686 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
29687 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
29688 send a body too). Since only server versions before
29689 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
29690 keep the workaround in place.
29691 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
29692 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
29693 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
29694 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
29695 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
29696 want to do it differently.
29697 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
29698 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
29699 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
29700 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
29701 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
29705 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
29706 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
29707 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
29708 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
29709 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
29712 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
29713 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
29714 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
29715 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
29716 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
29718 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
29719 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
29720 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
29721 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
29722 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
29723 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
29724 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
29725 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
29726 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
29727 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
29728 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
29729 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
29732 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
29733 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
29734 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
29735 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
29736 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
29737 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
29738 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
29740 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
29741 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
29742 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
29743 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
29744 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
29745 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
29746 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
29747 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
29748 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
29749 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
29750 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
29751 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
29752 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
29753 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
29754 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
29755 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
29756 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
29757 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
29758 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
29759 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
29760 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
29761 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
29762 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29765 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
29766 networkstatus vote.
29767 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
29768 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
29769 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
29771 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
29772 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
29773 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
29774 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
29776 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
29777 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
29778 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
29779 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29782 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
29783 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
29785 o Documentation changes:
29786 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
29787 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
29789 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
29792 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
29793 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
29794 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
29795 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
29796 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
29797 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
29800 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29801 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
29802 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
29803 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
29804 the rest of bug 1074.
29805 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
29806 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
29807 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
29808 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
29809 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
29810 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
29811 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29812 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
29813 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
29814 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
29815 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
29816 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
29817 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
29818 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29821 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
29822 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
29823 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
29824 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
29825 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
29826 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
29827 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
29828 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
29829 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
29830 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
29831 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
29832 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
29833 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
29834 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
29836 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29837 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
29838 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
29839 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
29840 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
29841 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
29843 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
29844 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
29845 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
29846 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
29847 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
29848 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
29849 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
29850 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
29851 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
29852 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29853 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
29854 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
29855 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
29856 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
29857 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
29858 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
29859 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
29860 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
29861 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
29862 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
29863 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
29864 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
29865 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
29866 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29867 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
29868 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
29870 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
29871 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
29872 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
29873 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
29874 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
29875 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
29877 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
29878 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
29879 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
29881 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29882 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
29883 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
29884 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
29885 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
29886 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
29887 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
29888 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
29889 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
29890 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
29891 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
29892 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
29893 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
29897 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
29898 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
29899 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
29900 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
29901 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
29902 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
29903 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
29904 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
29905 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
29906 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
29907 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
29908 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
29910 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29912 o Minor features (log subsystem):
29913 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
29914 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
29915 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
29917 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
29918 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
29920 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
29921 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
29922 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
29925 o Packaging changes:
29926 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
29927 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
29928 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
29931 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
29932 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
29933 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
29934 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
29935 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
29936 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
29939 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29940 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
29941 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
29942 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
29943 the rest of bug 1074.
29944 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
29945 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29946 Found by "piebeer".
29947 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
29948 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
29949 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
29950 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
29951 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
29952 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
29953 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29956 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
29958 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29961 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
29962 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
29963 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
29964 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
29965 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
29966 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
29967 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
29968 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
29969 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
29970 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
29971 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29973 o Packaging changes:
29974 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
29975 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
29976 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
29977 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
29978 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
29979 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
29982 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
29983 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
29984 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
29985 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
29986 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
29987 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
29990 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
29991 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29992 Found by "piebeer".
29993 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
29994 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
29995 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
29996 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
29999 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30001 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
30002 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
30003 Implements ticket 2432.
30006 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30007 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30008 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
30011 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
30012 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
30013 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
30014 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
30015 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
30016 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30018 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30019 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30020 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30021 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30023 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30024 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30025 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30026 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30027 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30028 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30029 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30030 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30032 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30033 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30034 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30035 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30036 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30037 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30038 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30039 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30040 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30041 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30042 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30043 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30044 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30045 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30048 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30049 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30050 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30051 bug reported by doorss.
30052 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30053 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30054 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30055 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30056 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30058 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30059 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30060 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30061 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
30062 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30064 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30065 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30066 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30068 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30069 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30070 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30071 Automake 1.7 or later.
30072 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30073 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30074 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30075 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30077 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30078 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
30079 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
30082 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30083 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
30084 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
30085 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
30087 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30088 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
30089 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
30090 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
30091 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
30092 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
30093 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
30094 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
30095 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
30097 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
30098 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
30099 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
30102 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30103 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
30104 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
30105 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
30106 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
30107 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
30108 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
30109 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
30110 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
30111 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
30112 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
30113 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
30114 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
30116 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30117 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
30121 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
30122 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
30123 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
30124 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
30125 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30127 o Major bugfixes (security):
30128 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30129 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30130 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30132 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30133 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30134 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30135 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30136 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30137 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30138 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30139 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30141 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30142 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30143 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30144 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30145 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30146 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30147 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30148 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30149 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30150 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30151 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30152 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30153 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30154 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30157 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30158 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30159 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30160 bug reported by doorss.
30161 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30162 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30163 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30164 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30165 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30167 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30168 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30169 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30170 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
30171 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30172 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30173 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30174 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30175 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30178 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30179 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30182 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30183 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30184 Automake 1.7 or later.
30187 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
30188 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30189 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
30190 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
30191 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
30194 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30195 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30196 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30197 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30198 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
30199 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
30200 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
30201 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
30202 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
30203 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
30204 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
30206 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
30207 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
30208 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
30209 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
30211 o Directory authority changes:
30212 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30215 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
30216 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
30217 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
30218 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
30219 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
30220 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
30221 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
30222 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
30223 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
30226 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30227 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
30228 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
30229 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
30230 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
30231 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
30232 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
30233 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
30234 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
30235 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
30239 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
30240 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30241 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
30242 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
30246 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30247 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30248 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30249 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30251 o Directory authority changes:
30252 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30255 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30258 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
30259 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30260 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
30261 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
30262 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
30265 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30266 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30267 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30268 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30269 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30270 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30271 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30272 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30273 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30274 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30275 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30276 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30277 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30278 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30279 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30280 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30281 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30282 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30283 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30284 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30285 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30286 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30287 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30290 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
30291 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
30292 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
30293 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
30295 o New directory authorities:
30296 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30300 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
30301 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
30302 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
30304 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30305 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30306 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30307 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30308 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30309 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30311 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30312 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30313 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30316 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30317 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30318 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30319 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
30320 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
30321 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30322 Patch from mingw-san.
30325 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
30326 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
30327 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30328 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
30329 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
30330 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
30333 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
30334 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30335 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
30338 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30339 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30340 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30341 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30342 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30345 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
30346 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
30347 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
30348 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
30349 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
30350 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
30351 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
30352 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
30353 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
30356 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
30357 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
30358 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
30359 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
30360 to a stable release.
30363 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30364 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30365 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30366 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30367 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30368 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30369 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30370 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30371 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30372 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30373 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30374 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30375 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30376 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
30377 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
30378 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
30379 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
30380 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
30381 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
30382 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
30383 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
30384 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
30385 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
30386 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
30387 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30388 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
30389 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
30390 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
30391 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
30392 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
30393 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
30396 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30397 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
30398 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
30399 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
30400 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
30401 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
30402 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30403 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30404 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30405 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30406 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30407 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30408 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30409 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30410 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
30411 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
30412 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
30414 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30415 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30416 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
30417 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
30418 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
30420 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
30421 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
30422 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
30423 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
30426 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
30427 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
30428 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
30429 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
30430 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
30431 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
30432 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
30433 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30435 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30436 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
30437 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
30438 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
30439 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
30440 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
30441 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
30442 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
30443 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
30444 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
30445 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
30446 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
30447 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
30448 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
30449 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
30452 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
30453 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
30454 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
30455 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
30456 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
30457 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
30458 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
30459 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
30460 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
30463 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
30464 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
30465 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
30466 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
30467 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
30469 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
30470 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
30471 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
30472 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
30473 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
30474 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
30475 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30476 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
30477 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
30478 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30479 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30480 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30481 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30482 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30484 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30485 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
30487 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
30488 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30489 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
30490 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
30491 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
30492 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
30493 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
30494 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
30495 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
30496 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
30497 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
30498 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
30499 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
30500 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
30501 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
30502 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
30503 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
30504 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30506 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
30507 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
30508 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
30509 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
30510 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
30511 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
30512 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
30513 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
30514 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
30515 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
30516 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
30517 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
30518 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
30520 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
30521 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
30522 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
30523 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30526 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
30527 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
30528 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
30529 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
30530 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
30531 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
30532 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
30533 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
30534 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
30535 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
30536 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
30537 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
30538 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
30539 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
30540 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
30541 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
30542 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
30543 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
30544 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
30547 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30548 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
30549 based on the time during which we were active and not in
30550 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
30551 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
30552 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
30553 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
30554 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30556 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30557 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
30558 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
30559 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
30560 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
30561 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
30562 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
30563 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
30564 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
30565 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30568 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
30569 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
30570 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
30571 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
30573 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
30574 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
30575 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
30576 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
30577 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
30578 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
30579 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
30580 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
30581 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
30582 the longest-lived bug prize.
30583 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
30584 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
30585 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
30586 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
30587 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
30588 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
30590 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
30591 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
30592 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
30593 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
30594 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
30595 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
30599 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30600 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
30601 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
30602 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
30603 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
30604 got suppressed since the last warning.
30605 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
30606 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
30607 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
30608 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
30609 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
30610 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
30611 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
30612 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
30613 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
30614 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
30615 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
30616 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
30617 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
30618 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
30619 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
30620 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
30621 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
30622 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
30623 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
30625 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30626 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30627 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30629 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30630 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
30631 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
30632 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
30633 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
30634 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
30635 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
30636 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
30637 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
30638 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
30639 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
30640 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30641 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30642 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30643 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30645 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
30646 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
30647 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
30648 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
30649 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
30650 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30651 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
30653 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
30654 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
30655 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
30656 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
30657 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
30660 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30661 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
30662 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
30663 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
30664 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
30665 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
30666 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
30667 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
30668 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
30669 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
30670 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30671 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
30672 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
30673 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
30674 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
30675 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
30676 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
30677 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
30680 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
30683 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
30684 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
30685 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
30686 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
30687 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
30691 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
30692 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
30693 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
30694 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
30695 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
30696 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
30697 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
30698 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
30699 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
30700 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
30701 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
30702 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
30703 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
30704 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
30705 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
30706 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
30707 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
30710 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
30711 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
30712 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
30713 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
30714 they first get the Guard flag.
30715 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
30719 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30720 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
30721 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
30722 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
30723 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
30724 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
30725 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30726 Patch from mingw-san.
30727 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
30728 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
30730 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
30731 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
30732 Implements enhancement 1790.
30734 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30735 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
30736 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
30737 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
30738 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
30739 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
30740 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
30741 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
30742 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
30743 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
30744 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
30745 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
30746 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
30747 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
30748 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
30749 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
30750 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
30751 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
30752 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
30753 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
30755 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
30756 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
30757 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
30758 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30759 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30760 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30761 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
30762 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
30763 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
30764 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
30765 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
30766 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
30767 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
30769 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
30770 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
30771 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
30772 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
30773 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
30774 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30776 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30777 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
30778 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
30779 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
30780 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
30781 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
30782 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
30783 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
30784 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
30785 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
30786 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
30787 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
30789 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
30790 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
30791 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
30792 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
30793 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
30794 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
30795 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
30797 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
30799 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
30800 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
30801 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
30802 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
30803 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
30804 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
30806 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30807 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
30808 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
30809 structures and defines in or.h for now.
30810 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
30811 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
30812 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
30813 statistics code to be more easily tested.
30814 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
30815 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
30816 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30819 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
30820 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
30821 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
30822 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
30823 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
30824 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
30828 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
30829 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
30830 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
30831 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
30832 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
30833 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
30834 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
30835 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
30836 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
30837 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
30838 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
30839 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
30840 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
30842 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
30843 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
30844 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
30845 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
30846 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
30847 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
30848 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
30849 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
30850 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
30851 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
30852 can be controlled by the consensus.
30855 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
30856 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
30857 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
30858 more accurate data for many African countries.
30859 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
30860 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
30861 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
30862 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
30863 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
30864 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
30865 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
30866 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
30867 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
30868 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
30869 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
30870 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
30872 o New directory authorities:
30873 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30877 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
30878 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
30879 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
30880 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
30881 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
30882 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
30883 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
30884 what should go in a patch.
30885 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
30886 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
30887 over our stored history.
30888 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
30889 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
30890 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
30891 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
30892 file. Fixes bug 1296.
30893 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
30894 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
30895 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
30899 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
30901 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
30902 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
30903 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
30904 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
30905 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
30906 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
30907 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
30908 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
30909 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
30910 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
30911 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
30912 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30913 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
30914 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
30915 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
30916 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
30917 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
30918 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
30919 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
30920 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
30921 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
30922 two-hop circuits are actually created.
30923 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
30924 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30925 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
30926 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30929 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
30930 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
30931 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
30932 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
30933 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
30935 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
30936 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
30939 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
30940 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
30941 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
30942 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
30943 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
30944 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
30945 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
30946 their directory fetches over TLS).
30947 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
30948 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
30949 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
30950 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
30951 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
30952 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
30953 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
30954 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
30957 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
30958 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
30962 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
30963 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30964 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
30965 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
30966 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
30967 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
30968 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30971 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
30972 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
30973 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
30974 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
30975 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
30978 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
30979 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
30980 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
30981 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
30982 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
30983 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
30984 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
30985 their directory fetches over TLS).
30988 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
30989 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
30991 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
30992 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
30993 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
30994 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
30995 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
30996 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
30997 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
30998 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
30999 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
31000 hour of their uptime.
31003 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
31004 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
31005 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
31009 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
31010 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
31011 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
31012 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
31013 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
31014 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
31016 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
31017 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
31018 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
31020 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
31021 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
31025 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
31026 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
31027 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
31031 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
31032 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
31033 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31036 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31037 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31038 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31039 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31040 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
31041 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
31042 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
31043 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
31044 about the option without breaking older ones.
31045 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31046 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31047 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31048 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31051 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
31052 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
31053 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
31054 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
31056 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
31057 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
31058 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
31061 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
31062 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
31064 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
31065 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
31066 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
31067 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
31068 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
31069 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
31070 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31071 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
31072 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
31073 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
31074 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
31077 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31078 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31079 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31080 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31081 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31082 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31083 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31086 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
31087 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
31088 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
31089 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
31090 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
31091 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
31094 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31095 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31096 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31097 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
31099 o Major features (performance):
31100 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
31101 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
31102 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
31103 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
31104 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
31105 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
31106 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
31108 o Minor features (performance):
31109 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
31110 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
31111 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
31112 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
31113 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
31117 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
31118 speeds up the build considerably.
31120 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31121 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
31122 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31123 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
31124 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31125 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
31126 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
31127 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31129 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
31130 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31131 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31133 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31134 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31135 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31136 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31138 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31139 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
31140 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
31141 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
31142 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
31143 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
31146 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
31147 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
31148 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
31150 o Directory authority changes:
31151 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31152 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31153 service directory authority) from the list.
31156 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31157 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31158 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31159 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31160 libraries in a security patch.
31161 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31162 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31163 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31164 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31166 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
31167 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
31168 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
31169 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
31170 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31171 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31172 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31175 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
31176 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
31177 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
31178 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
31179 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
31180 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
31181 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
31182 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
31183 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
31184 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
31185 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
31186 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
31187 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
31189 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
31190 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
31191 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
31192 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
31193 control-spec.txt said they were.
31194 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31195 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31196 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
31197 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
31198 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31200 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31201 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
31202 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
31203 produce nicer HTML.
31204 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
31205 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
31206 iPhone SDK versions.
31207 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
31208 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
31209 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
31210 projects directory in svn.
31211 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
31212 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
31213 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
31214 high latency links.
31217 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
31218 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
31219 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
31221 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
31222 to the circuit build timeout.
31223 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
31224 arguments we do not recognize.
31225 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
31226 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
31227 open() without checking it.
31230 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
31231 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
31232 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
31233 several minor potential security bugs.
31236 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31237 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31238 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31239 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
31240 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31241 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31242 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31245 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31246 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31248 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31249 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31250 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31251 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31255 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
31256 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
31260 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
31261 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
31262 customized patches to run/build.
31265 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
31266 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
31267 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
31270 o Major bugfixes (performance):
31271 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31272 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31273 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31274 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31275 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31276 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31277 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31280 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31281 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31282 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31283 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31284 libraries in a security patch.
31285 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31286 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31287 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31288 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31291 o Directory authority changes:
31292 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31293 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31294 service directory authority) from the list.
31297 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31298 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31301 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31302 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31303 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31304 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31305 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31308 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
31309 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
31310 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
31314 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
31315 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
31316 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
31317 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
31318 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31321 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
31322 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
31323 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
31327 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
31328 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
31329 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
31330 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
31331 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
31333 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
31334 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
31336 o Directory authority changes:
31337 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31340 o Major features (performance):
31341 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31342 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31343 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31344 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31345 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31346 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31347 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31348 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
31349 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
31350 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
31351 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
31352 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
31353 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
31355 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
31356 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
31357 but never per-conn write limits.
31358 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
31359 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
31360 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
31361 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
31363 o Major features (relay selection options):
31364 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
31365 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
31366 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
31367 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
31368 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
31369 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
31370 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
31372 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
31373 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
31375 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
31376 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
31377 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
31378 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
31379 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
31380 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
31381 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
31382 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
31383 the network changes.
31386 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31387 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31388 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31391 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
31392 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
31393 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
31394 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
31395 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
31396 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
31397 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
31398 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
31399 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
31400 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
31401 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
31402 generated while acting as a relay.
31403 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
31404 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31405 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31406 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31407 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31408 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31410 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
31411 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
31412 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
31413 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
31414 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
31415 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
31418 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
31419 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
31420 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
31422 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
31423 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
31424 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
31426 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
31427 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
31429 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
31430 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
31431 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
31433 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
31434 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
31437 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31438 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
31439 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
31440 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
31441 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
31442 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
31443 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
31444 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
31445 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
31447 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
31450 o Removed features:
31451 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
31452 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
31453 hidden service usage.
31456 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
31457 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
31458 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
31459 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
31460 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
31462 o Directory authority changes:
31463 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31467 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31468 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31469 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31472 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
31473 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
31474 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
31475 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
31476 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
31479 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31480 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31481 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
31482 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
31483 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
31484 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
31485 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
31488 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31489 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31490 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31491 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31492 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
31493 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
31495 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
31496 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
31499 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
31500 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
31501 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
31502 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
31503 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
31504 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
31507 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
31508 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
31509 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
31511 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
31512 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
31513 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
31514 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
31515 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
31516 download consensus + microdescriptors".
31517 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
31518 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
31519 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
31520 hash algorithm in the future.
31521 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
31522 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
31523 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
31524 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
31525 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
31526 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
31527 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
31528 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
31529 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
31532 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31533 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31534 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
31535 won't work unless we say we are.
31538 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
31539 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
31540 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
31541 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
31542 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
31543 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
31544 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31545 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31546 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31547 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31548 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
31549 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
31550 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
31551 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
31552 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
31553 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
31554 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
31555 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
31556 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
31557 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
31558 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
31559 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
31562 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
31563 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
31564 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
31565 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31567 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
31568 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
31570 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
31571 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
31572 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
31573 in the Vidalia Settings window.
31576 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
31577 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
31578 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
31579 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
31580 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
31582 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31583 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31585 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
31586 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
31587 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
31590 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31591 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31592 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31594 o New directory authorities:
31595 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
31597 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31600 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
31601 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31603 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31604 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31605 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31606 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31607 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31608 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31609 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31610 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31611 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31612 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31613 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31614 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31615 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31616 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31617 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31618 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31619 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
31621 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
31622 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
31623 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
31625 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
31626 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
31630 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
31631 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
31632 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
31633 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
31634 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
31637 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
31638 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31641 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31643 o Directory authorities:
31644 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
31648 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
31649 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
31650 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
31651 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
31652 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
31655 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
31656 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
31657 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
31658 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
31660 o New directory authorities:
31661 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31664 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
31665 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
31666 SSL handshake issues.
31667 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
31668 during the TLS handshake.
31669 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
31670 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
31671 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
31672 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
31673 none of which are very big.
31676 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
31678 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
31679 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31680 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
31681 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
31682 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31683 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
31684 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
31685 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
31688 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31689 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
31690 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
31691 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
31692 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
31695 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
31696 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31699 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
31700 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
31703 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
31704 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
31705 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31708 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
31709 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
31710 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
31711 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
31712 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
31713 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
31716 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
31717 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
31718 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
31719 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
31720 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
31721 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
31722 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
31723 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
31724 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
31725 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
31726 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
31727 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
31728 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
31729 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
31730 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
31731 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31732 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31733 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31736 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31737 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31741 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31742 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31743 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31744 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
31745 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
31746 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
31747 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31748 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31749 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31750 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31751 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31752 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31753 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31754 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31755 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31756 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31757 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31758 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31759 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31760 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31761 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
31763 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
31764 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
31765 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
31766 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31767 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
31768 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
31770 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
31771 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
31772 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
31775 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
31776 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
31777 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
31778 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
31779 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
31780 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
31783 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
31784 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
31785 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
31786 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
31787 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
31790 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
31791 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
31792 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
31795 o New directory authorities:
31796 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
31800 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
31801 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
31802 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
31803 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
31804 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
31807 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
31808 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
31809 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
31810 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
31811 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
31814 o New options for gathering stats safely:
31815 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
31816 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
31817 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
31818 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
31819 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
31820 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
31821 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
31822 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
31823 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
31825 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
31826 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
31827 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
31828 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
31830 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
31831 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
31832 their extra-info documents.
31835 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
31836 source files Tor was built with.
31837 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
31838 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
31839 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
31840 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
31841 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
31842 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
31844 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
31845 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
31846 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
31847 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
31848 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
31850 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
31851 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
31854 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
31855 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
31856 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
31857 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
31858 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31860 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
31861 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
31863 o Deprecated and removed features:
31864 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
31865 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
31866 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
31867 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
31868 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
31869 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
31870 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
31871 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
31873 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
31874 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
31875 via application-level web tricks.
31877 o Packaging changes:
31878 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
31879 installer bundles. See
31880 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
31881 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
31882 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
31883 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
31884 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
31885 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
31886 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
31887 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
31888 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
31889 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
31890 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
31891 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
31894 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
31895 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
31896 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
31899 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
31900 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
31901 part of patch provided by "optimist".
31904 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
31905 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
31906 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
31907 and confuse fewer users.
31910 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
31911 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
31912 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
31913 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
31914 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
31915 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
31916 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
31919 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
31920 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
31921 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
31922 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
31923 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
31924 other features and bug fixes.
31927 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
31930 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
31931 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
31932 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
31933 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
31934 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
31937 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
31938 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
31939 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
31940 failure message (oops).
31943 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
31944 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
31945 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
31946 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
31950 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
31951 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
31952 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
31953 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
31954 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
31955 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
31956 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31957 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
31958 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
31959 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
31960 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
31961 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
31962 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
31963 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
31964 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
31967 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
31968 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
31969 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
31970 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
31971 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
31972 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
31973 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
31974 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
31975 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
31976 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
31977 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
31978 Workaround for bug 1024.
31979 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
31983 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
31984 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
31985 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
31988 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
31990 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
31991 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
31992 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
31993 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
31994 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
31997 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
31998 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
31999 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32000 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32001 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32002 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32003 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32004 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32005 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32006 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32009 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32010 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32011 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
32012 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32013 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32014 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32015 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32016 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32019 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
32020 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
32021 a bunch of minor bugs.
32024 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32025 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32026 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32028 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
32029 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
32030 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
32031 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
32033 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
32037 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32038 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
32039 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
32041 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32042 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
32044 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
32045 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
32047 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
32048 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
32049 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
32050 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32051 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32052 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32053 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32054 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32056 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32057 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
32058 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
32060 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
32061 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
32062 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
32063 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
32064 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
32068 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
32069 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32070 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
32071 of more minor bugs.
32073 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32074 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32075 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32076 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32078 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32079 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
32080 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
32081 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32082 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
32083 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
32084 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
32085 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
32086 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
32087 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
32088 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
32089 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32090 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
32091 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
32092 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
32093 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
32094 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
32096 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
32097 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
32098 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
32099 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32101 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32102 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
32103 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
32106 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
32107 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32108 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
32109 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
32110 addresses to fall out of the directory.
32113 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
32114 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
32115 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
32116 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
32118 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
32119 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32120 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32121 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32122 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32123 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32124 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32125 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32126 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
32127 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
32128 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
32129 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
32130 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
32131 patch by Sebastian.
32132 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32133 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32136 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
32137 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
32138 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
32139 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
32140 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
32141 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
32143 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
32144 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
32145 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
32146 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
32147 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
32149 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32152 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
32153 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
32155 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
32156 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
32157 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32158 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32159 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32160 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32162 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
32163 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32164 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
32165 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
32166 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
32167 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32168 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
32169 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
32170 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
32171 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
32172 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
32173 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
32177 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
32178 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
32179 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
32182 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
32183 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
32184 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32186 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
32187 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
32188 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
32189 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
32190 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
32191 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
32192 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
32193 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
32194 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
32195 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
32196 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
32197 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32198 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
32199 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
32200 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
32201 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
32202 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
32203 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
32204 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
32205 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
32206 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
32207 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
32208 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
32209 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
32210 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
32211 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
32213 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
32214 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
32215 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
32216 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
32217 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
32218 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
32219 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
32220 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
32221 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
32222 of 0. Suggested by lark.
32224 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32225 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
32226 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
32227 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
32228 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32231 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
32233 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
32234 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
32235 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
32236 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
32239 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
32240 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
32241 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
32242 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32243 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
32245 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
32246 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
32247 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
32248 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
32251 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32252 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32253 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32254 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32255 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32256 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
32257 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32258 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32261 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
32262 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32263 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32264 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32267 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
32268 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
32269 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
32270 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32271 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
32272 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
32275 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32276 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32277 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32278 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32279 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32280 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32283 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
32284 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
32285 reported by Matt Edman.
32286 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
32288 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
32289 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
32290 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
32291 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
32293 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
32294 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32295 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
32296 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32297 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32298 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32299 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
32300 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
32301 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
32302 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
32303 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
32304 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
32305 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
32306 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32307 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
32308 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32309 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
32310 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
32311 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32314 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
32315 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32316 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
32317 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
32320 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
32321 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
32322 the letter of C99's alias rules.
32325 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
32326 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
32327 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
32328 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
32330 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
32331 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
32332 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
32335 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32336 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32339 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32340 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32341 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32342 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32343 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32344 reported by "wood".
32345 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
32346 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
32347 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
32348 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
32349 identify a connection.
32350 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32351 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32352 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32353 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32354 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32355 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32356 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32357 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32358 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32359 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32361 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32362 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
32363 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
32364 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
32365 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
32366 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
32367 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32370 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32371 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32373 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32374 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
32375 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32376 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32377 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32378 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
32379 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32380 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32382 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32383 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
32384 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32385 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32386 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
32387 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
32388 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32389 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32390 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32391 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32392 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32393 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32394 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32395 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32396 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32397 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32398 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32399 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32400 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
32401 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
32402 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32403 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32404 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32405 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32406 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32407 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32408 840. Patch from rovv.
32409 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32410 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32411 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32413 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32414 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32415 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32416 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32417 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32418 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32419 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32421 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32422 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
32423 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32426 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
32427 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
32429 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32430 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
32431 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32432 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32433 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32434 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32435 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32436 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32437 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32439 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
32441 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
32442 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
32446 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
32447 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
32448 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
32449 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
32450 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
32451 have had some time to upgrade.)
32454 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32455 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32458 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
32459 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
32460 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
32461 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
32462 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32465 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
32466 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
32468 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
32469 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32470 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
32471 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
32472 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
32473 entirely. Patch from coderman.
32476 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
32477 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
32478 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
32479 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
32480 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
32481 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32482 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
32486 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
32487 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
32488 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
32489 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
32490 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
32491 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
32492 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
32495 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32496 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
32497 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
32498 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
32499 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
32501 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32502 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32503 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32504 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32505 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32506 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32507 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32508 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32509 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32510 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32514 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
32515 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
32516 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
32518 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
32519 without support for deprecated functions.
32520 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
32522 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32523 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
32524 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
32525 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
32526 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32527 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32528 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32529 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
32530 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
32531 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
32532 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
32533 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
32534 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
32535 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
32536 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
32537 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
32538 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
32539 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32540 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32541 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32542 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32543 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
32544 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
32546 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32547 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
32548 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
32549 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
32550 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
32551 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
32553 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
32554 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
32555 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
32556 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
32557 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
32559 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
32560 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
32561 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
32563 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
32564 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
32567 o Deprecated and removed features:
32568 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
32569 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
32570 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
32573 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32574 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
32575 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
32576 with log.h on Android.
32577 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
32578 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
32581 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
32582 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
32584 o New directory authorities:
32585 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
32589 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
32590 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
32591 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
32592 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
32593 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
32594 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32597 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
32598 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
32599 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
32600 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32601 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32602 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32603 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32604 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32605 reported by "wood".
32606 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32607 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
32608 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32609 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32612 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
32613 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
32615 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
32616 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
32617 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
32618 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
32619 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
32620 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
32621 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
32622 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
32623 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
32624 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32625 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
32626 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32627 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
32628 Implements proposal 148.
32629 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
32630 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
32631 system to do it for us.
32632 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
32633 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
32634 this fix will be slightly helpful.
32635 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
32636 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
32637 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
32638 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
32639 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
32640 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
32641 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
32642 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
32643 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
32646 o Minor features (controller):
32647 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
32648 been fetched and validated.
32649 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32650 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
32651 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32652 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
32653 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
32654 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
32657 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
32658 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32659 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
32660 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
32661 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
32663 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32664 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32665 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32666 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32667 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32668 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32669 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32670 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32671 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32673 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32674 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
32675 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
32676 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
32677 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32678 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
32679 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
32680 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32682 o Deprecated and removed features:
32683 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
32685 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
32686 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
32687 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
32689 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32690 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
32691 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
32693 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
32694 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
32695 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
32696 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
32697 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
32698 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
32701 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
32702 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
32703 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
32704 fixes a variety of other issues.
32707 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
32708 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
32709 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
32710 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
32713 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
32714 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
32715 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
32716 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
32719 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
32720 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32721 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
32725 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
32727 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
32728 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
32729 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
32730 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
32731 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
32732 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
32733 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
32735 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
32736 rest, and don't automatically fail.
32737 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
32738 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32739 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32740 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32742 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32743 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32744 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32745 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
32746 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
32747 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
32748 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
32749 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
32750 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32751 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
32753 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32757 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
32758 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
32759 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
32761 o Minor features (controller):
32762 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
32766 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
32767 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
32768 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
32769 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
32770 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
32771 variety of other issues.
32774 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
32775 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
32776 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
32777 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
32778 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
32779 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
32780 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
32781 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
32782 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
32783 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
32784 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
32785 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
32788 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
32789 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32791 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32792 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
32793 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
32794 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
32795 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
32796 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
32797 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32798 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
32799 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
32800 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
32801 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
32802 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
32803 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
32804 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
32805 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
32809 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
32810 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
32811 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
32812 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
32813 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
32814 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
32815 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
32816 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
32817 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
32818 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
32819 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
32820 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
32821 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
32822 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
32823 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
32824 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
32825 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
32826 list. It has been gone for many months.
32827 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
32828 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
32829 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
32832 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32833 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
32834 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
32837 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
32838 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
32839 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
32840 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
32841 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
32842 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
32843 variety of other issues.
32846 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
32847 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
32848 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
32849 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
32850 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
32851 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
32852 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
32853 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
32854 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
32855 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
32856 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
32857 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
32858 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
32859 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
32862 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
32863 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
32864 Suggested by Lucky Green.
32865 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32866 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32867 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32868 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32869 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32870 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32872 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
32873 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
32875 o Hidden service performance improvements:
32876 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
32877 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
32878 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
32879 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
32880 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
32881 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
32882 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
32883 faster after restart.
32886 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
32887 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
32888 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
32889 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32890 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32891 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32892 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32893 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32894 840. Patch from rovv.
32895 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32896 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32897 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32898 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32899 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32900 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32901 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32902 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32903 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32905 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
32906 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
32907 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
32908 have already been marked for close.
32909 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
32910 introduction points.
32911 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
32912 memory performance during directory parsing.
32913 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
32914 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
32915 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
32916 because of a pending download.
32919 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
32920 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
32921 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
32922 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32925 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
32926 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
32927 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
32928 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
32929 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
32930 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
32931 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
32932 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
32933 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
32934 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
32935 lookups more reliable.
32936 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
32937 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
32938 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
32939 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
32940 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
32941 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
32942 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32945 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
32946 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
32947 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32948 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
32949 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
32950 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
32951 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
32952 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
32953 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
32954 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
32955 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
32957 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
32958 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
32959 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
32960 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
32961 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
32962 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32963 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
32964 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
32965 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32968 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
32969 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
32970 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
32971 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
32972 locked down these days.
32973 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
32974 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
32975 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
32976 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
32977 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
32979 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
32980 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
32981 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
32982 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
32983 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
32984 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
32985 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
32986 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
32987 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
32988 people find host:port too confusing.
32989 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
32990 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32991 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
32994 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32996 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
32997 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
32998 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
32999 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33000 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
33002 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
33003 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
33004 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33005 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33006 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33007 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33008 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33009 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33010 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33011 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33012 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
33013 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
33015 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33016 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33017 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33018 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
33019 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33020 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
33021 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
33022 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
33023 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
33025 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
33026 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
33027 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
33028 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
33029 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
33030 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33031 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
33032 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
33033 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
33034 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
33035 bug 820, reported by seeess.
33036 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33037 list. It has been gone for many months.
33039 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33040 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
33041 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
33042 actual mistakes we're making here.
33043 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
33044 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
33045 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
33046 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
33049 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
33050 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
33051 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
33052 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33055 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33056 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33057 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33058 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33059 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33060 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33062 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33063 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33064 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33065 pointed out by rovv.
33068 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33069 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33070 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33071 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33072 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
33073 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
33074 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33075 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33076 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33077 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33078 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33079 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
33080 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
33081 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33082 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33083 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33084 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33085 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33086 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
33087 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
33088 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33091 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
33092 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
33093 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
33094 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
33095 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
33096 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
33097 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33100 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
33102 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
33103 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
33104 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
33105 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
33106 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
33107 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
33108 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
33110 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
33111 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
33112 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
33113 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
33114 known descriptor before building circuits.
33116 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
33117 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
33118 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
33119 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
33120 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
33121 identify a connection.
33122 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33123 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33124 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33126 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33127 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33128 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33129 pointed out by rovv.
33132 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33133 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33134 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33135 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
33136 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
33137 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33138 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33139 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33140 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
33141 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
33142 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
33143 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33144 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33145 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33146 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33149 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
33150 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
33151 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
33152 answer sections match.
33153 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
33154 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
33157 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
33158 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33161 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
33162 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
33163 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
33165 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
33166 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
33167 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33170 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
33171 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
33172 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
33173 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
33176 o Removed features:
33177 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
33178 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
33181 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
33182 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
33183 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
33184 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
33185 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
33186 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
33188 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
33189 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
33190 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
33193 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
33194 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
33195 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
33196 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
33197 be sent using an "early" cell.
33200 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33201 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33202 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33203 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33204 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33205 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33206 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33209 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
33210 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
33211 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
33212 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
33213 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
33214 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
33215 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
33216 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
33217 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
33218 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
33219 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
33220 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
33221 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
33222 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
33223 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
33224 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
33227 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
33228 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
33229 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
33230 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33231 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33232 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33233 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
33234 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
33235 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
33237 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
33238 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
33239 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
33240 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
33241 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
33244 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33245 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
33246 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
33247 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33249 o Removed features:
33250 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
33251 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
33255 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
33257 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33258 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33259 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33262 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
33263 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
33264 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33267 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
33268 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
33269 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33270 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33271 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33272 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
33273 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
33274 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
33275 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33276 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33277 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
33278 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
33279 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
33280 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33281 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
33282 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
33283 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
33284 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
33285 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
33286 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
33287 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
33288 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
33289 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
33292 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
33293 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
33295 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
33296 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
33297 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
33298 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
33299 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
33300 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
33301 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
33303 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
33304 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
33305 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
33306 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
33307 found by Geoff Goodell.
33310 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
33311 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
33312 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
33313 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
33314 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
33315 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
33318 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
33319 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
33320 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
33323 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33324 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
33325 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33326 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33327 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33328 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33329 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
33330 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
33331 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33332 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
33333 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
33334 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
33335 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
33336 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
33339 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
33340 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
33341 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
33343 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
33344 fingerprints with or without space.
33345 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
33346 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
33347 partway through and wants to catch up.
33348 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
33349 state to start out in.
33352 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
33353 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
33354 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
33355 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
33356 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
33359 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
33360 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
33361 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
33362 some of the connection attempts fail.
33363 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
33364 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
33365 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
33366 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
33367 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
33368 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
33370 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
33371 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
33372 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
33375 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
33376 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
33377 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
33378 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
33379 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
33380 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
33381 and adds a variety of smaller features.
33384 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
33385 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
33386 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
33387 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
33389 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
33390 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
33391 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
33392 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
33394 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
33395 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
33396 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
33397 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
33398 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
33399 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
33400 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
33403 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
33404 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
33405 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
33406 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
33407 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
33409 o Memory fixes and improvements:
33410 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
33411 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
33412 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
33413 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
33414 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
33415 on a typical directory cache.
33416 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
33417 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
33418 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
33419 and may reduce fragmentation.
33420 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
33421 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
33422 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
33424 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
33425 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
33426 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
33428 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
33429 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
33433 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
33434 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
33435 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
33436 done that for a long time.
33437 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
33438 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
33439 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
33440 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
33443 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
33444 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
33445 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
33446 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
33447 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
33448 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
33450 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
33451 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
33452 output to messages of warning and error severity.
33453 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
33454 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
33455 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
33456 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
33457 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
33458 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
33459 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
33460 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
33461 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
33462 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
33463 directory requests we should expect to see.
33464 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
33466 - Lots of new unit tests.
33467 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
33468 two parallel lists in lockstep.
33471 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
33472 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
33473 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33476 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
33477 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
33478 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
33479 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
33480 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
33481 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
33482 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
33485 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
33486 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
33487 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
33491 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
33492 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
33493 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
33496 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
33497 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
33498 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
33500 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
33501 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
33503 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
33504 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
33505 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
33506 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
33507 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33508 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
33509 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
33511 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
33512 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
33513 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
33514 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
33515 - Fix compile on Windows.
33518 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
33519 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
33520 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
33521 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
33522 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
33523 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
33524 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
33527 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
33528 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
33531 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
33532 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
33533 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
33534 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
33536 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
33537 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
33538 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
33541 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
33542 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
33543 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
33544 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
33548 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
33549 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
33550 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
33551 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
33553 o Major security fixes:
33554 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
33555 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
33556 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
33557 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
33558 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
33561 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
33562 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33565 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
33566 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
33569 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
33570 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
33573 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
33574 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
33575 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
33578 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
33579 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33582 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
33583 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
33584 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
33585 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
33586 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
33588 o New directory authorities:
33589 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
33590 it has been down for months.
33591 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
33595 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
33596 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
33598 o Minor features (security):
33599 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
33600 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
33601 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
33604 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
33605 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
33606 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
33607 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
33608 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
33609 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
33610 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
33611 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
33612 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33614 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
33615 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
33616 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33617 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
33618 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
33619 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
33620 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33621 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
33622 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
33624 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33625 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
33626 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
33627 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
33628 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
33629 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
33630 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
33631 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
33632 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
33633 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
33634 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33635 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
33636 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
33637 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
33638 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
33639 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
33640 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
33641 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
33642 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
33645 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
33646 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33647 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
33648 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
33651 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
33652 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
33653 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
33654 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
33657 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
33658 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33659 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
33660 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
33661 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
33664 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
33665 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
33666 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
33667 certain censored countries by default again.
33670 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
33671 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33672 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
33673 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
33674 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33675 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
33676 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
33677 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
33679 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33680 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
33681 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
33682 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
33683 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
33684 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
33685 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
33686 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
33687 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
33688 a directory. Fix from lodger.
33690 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33691 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
33692 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
33693 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
33694 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
33695 RelayBandwidth* values.
33696 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
33697 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
33698 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
33699 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
33700 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
33701 get_interface_address6().
33702 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
33703 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
33704 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
33706 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
33707 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
33708 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
33709 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33710 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
33711 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
33712 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33713 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
33714 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
33715 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33718 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
33719 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
33720 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
33723 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
33724 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33725 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
33726 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
33727 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
33730 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
33731 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
33732 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
33733 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
33734 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
33735 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
33736 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
33737 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
33738 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
33741 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
33742 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
33743 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
33744 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33747 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
33748 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33749 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
33750 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
33751 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
33752 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
33753 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
33756 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
33757 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
33758 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
33759 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
33760 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
33761 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
33762 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
33764 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
33765 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
33766 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
33767 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
33768 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
33771 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
33772 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
33773 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
33774 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
33775 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
33776 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
33777 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33778 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
33779 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
33780 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
33781 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
33782 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
33783 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
33784 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
33785 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
33786 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33787 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
33788 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33789 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33790 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
33791 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
33792 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
33793 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
33794 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
33795 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
33796 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
33798 o Minor features (performance):
33799 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
33801 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
33802 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
33803 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
33804 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
33805 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
33806 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
33807 non-system include paths.
33808 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
33809 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
33812 o Minor features (other):
33813 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
33815 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
33816 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
33817 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
33820 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
33821 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
33822 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
33823 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
33825 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
33826 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
33827 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
33828 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
33829 Should fix bug 537.
33830 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
33831 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
33832 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33833 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
33834 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33836 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33837 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
33838 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
33839 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
33840 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
33841 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
33842 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
33843 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
33844 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
33845 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
33846 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
33847 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
33848 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
33849 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
33850 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
33851 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33852 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
33853 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
33854 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
33855 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
33856 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
33857 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
33858 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
33859 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
33860 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
33863 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33864 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
33865 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
33869 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
33870 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
33871 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
33872 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
33873 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
33876 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
33877 Tor's x509 certificates.
33880 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
33881 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
33882 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33883 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
33884 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
33885 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33887 o Minor features (security):
33888 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
33889 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
33891 o Minor features (directory authority):
33892 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
33893 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
33894 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
33895 bandwidthburst values.
33897 o Minor features (controller):
33898 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
33899 processes from running us out of memory.
33901 o Minor features (misc):
33902 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
33903 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
33904 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
33905 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
33907 o Deprecated features (controller):
33908 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
33909 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
33910 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
33913 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
33914 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
33916 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
33917 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
33918 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33919 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
33920 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
33921 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33922 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
33923 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
33925 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
33926 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33927 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
33928 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33929 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
33930 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
33931 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
33932 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
33934 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
33935 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
33936 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
33937 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
33938 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33939 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
33940 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33941 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
33942 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33943 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
33944 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
33945 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33947 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33948 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
33950 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
33951 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
33952 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
33953 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
33954 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
33955 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
33958 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
33959 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
33960 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
33961 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
33962 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
33964 o New directory authorities:
33965 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
33969 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
33970 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
33971 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
33972 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
33973 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
33974 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
33975 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
33976 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
33980 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
33981 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
33982 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
33983 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
33984 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
33985 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
33986 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
33987 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
33988 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
33989 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
33992 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
33993 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
33994 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
33995 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
33999 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
34000 the request isn't encrypted.
34001 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
34002 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
34003 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
34004 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
34005 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
34008 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
34009 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
34012 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
34015 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
34016 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
34017 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
34019 o New directory authorities:
34020 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
34023 o Major performance improvements:
34024 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
34025 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
34026 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
34027 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
34028 memory fragmentation.
34031 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
34032 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
34033 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
34034 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34035 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
34036 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
34037 bodies when they receive them.
34038 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
34039 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
34040 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
34042 o Minor performance improvements:
34043 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
34044 of them were actually distinct.
34045 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
34046 interested in a given message.
34049 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
34050 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
34051 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
34052 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
34053 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
34054 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
34055 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
34056 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
34057 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
34058 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
34059 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
34061 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
34062 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
34063 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
34064 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
34065 this country" and "1 person from this country".
34066 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34067 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
34068 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34069 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
34070 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
34072 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34073 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34074 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
34076 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
34077 but client versions are not.
34078 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34079 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34081 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
34082 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
34083 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34084 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
34085 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
34087 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
34088 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
34089 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
34092 o Minor features (controller):
34093 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
34094 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
34095 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
34096 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
34098 o Minor features (directory authorities):
34099 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
34100 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
34101 running a test network on a single host.
34102 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
34103 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
34105 o Minor features (bridges):
34106 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
34107 unencrypted connections.
34109 o Minor features (other):
34110 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
34111 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
34112 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
34113 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
34116 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
34117 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
34118 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
34119 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
34122 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34123 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34124 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34125 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34126 on network address.
34129 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34130 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
34131 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34132 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
34133 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34134 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
34135 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34136 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34137 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
34138 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
34139 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
34140 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
34143 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34144 rebuild our server descriptor.
34145 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34146 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
34147 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
34148 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34149 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34150 nonstandard integer types.
34151 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34152 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34153 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
34154 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
34155 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
34157 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34158 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
34159 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
34160 when they receive them.
34161 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
34162 This includes some 64-bit systems.
34163 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
34164 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
34165 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
34166 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
34167 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34168 router_get_by_hexdigest().
34169 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34170 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34174 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
34175 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
34176 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34179 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
34180 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
34181 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
34182 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
34183 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
34184 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
34185 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
34186 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34189 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
34190 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
34191 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
34192 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
34194 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
34195 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
34198 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
34199 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
34202 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
34204 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
34205 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
34207 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
34208 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
34209 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
34210 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34211 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
34212 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
34213 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
34214 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34215 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
34216 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
34220 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
34221 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
34222 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
34225 - Make the unit tests build again.
34226 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
34227 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
34228 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
34229 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
34230 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
34231 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34232 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
34233 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
34234 the next one as a duplicate.
34237 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
34238 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
34239 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
34240 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
34243 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
34244 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
34245 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
34248 o New directory authorities:
34249 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
34253 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
34254 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
34255 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
34256 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
34257 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
34258 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34259 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
34261 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
34262 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
34264 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34265 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34266 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
34267 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
34268 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
34269 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
34271 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
34272 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
34273 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
34274 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
34275 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
34276 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34279 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
34280 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
34281 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
34282 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
34283 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
34284 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
34285 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
34286 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
34287 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
34288 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
34289 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
34290 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
34291 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
34292 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
34293 where Tor is blocked.
34294 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
34295 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
34296 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
34297 to a file periodically.
34298 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
34299 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
34300 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
34304 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
34305 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
34306 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
34307 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
34308 in the relevant networkstatus document.
34309 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
34310 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
34311 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34312 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
34313 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
34314 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
34315 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
34316 by Karsten Loesing.
34317 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
34318 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
34319 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
34320 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
34321 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
34322 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34323 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
34324 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
34325 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
34326 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34327 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
34328 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
34329 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
34330 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34331 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34332 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
34333 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
34334 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34335 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34336 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34337 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34338 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
34339 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34340 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
34341 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
34342 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34343 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
34344 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34347 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
34348 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
34349 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
34350 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
34351 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
34352 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
34353 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
34354 even if your DirPort isn't on.
34355 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
34356 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
34357 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
34359 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
34360 multiple controller passwords.
34361 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
34362 router based on the router's purpose.
34363 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
34364 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
34365 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
34366 the approved-routers file.
34369 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
34370 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
34371 well as a few minor bugs.
34374 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
34375 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
34376 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
34378 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34379 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34380 rebuild our server descriptor.
34382 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34383 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
34384 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
34385 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
34386 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
34387 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
34388 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
34389 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
34390 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
34391 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
34393 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
34394 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
34395 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
34396 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
34397 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
34398 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
34399 then be flexible about families.
34402 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
34403 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
34404 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
34408 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
34409 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
34410 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
34411 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
34412 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
34415 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34416 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34417 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34418 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34419 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34422 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34423 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
34425 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
34426 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
34427 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
34428 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
34429 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
34430 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
34431 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34433 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
34434 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
34435 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
34436 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
34439 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
34440 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
34443 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
34444 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
34445 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34448 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
34449 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
34450 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
34451 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
34452 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
34453 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
34454 addresses many more minor issues.
34456 o New directory authorities:
34457 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
34460 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
34461 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
34462 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
34463 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
34465 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
34466 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
34467 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
34468 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
34469 and are reaching it.
34470 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
34471 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
34472 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
34473 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
34474 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
34475 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
34478 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
34479 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
34481 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
34482 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
34483 no longer work for clients.
34484 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34485 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
34487 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
34488 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
34489 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
34490 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
34491 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
34492 enough directory information to build a circuit.
34493 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
34494 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
34495 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
34496 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
34497 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
34498 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
34500 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
34501 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
34502 requests for all of them.
34503 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
34505 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
34506 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
34507 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
34509 o New requirements:
34510 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
34511 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
34515 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
34516 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
34517 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
34518 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
34519 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
34520 networkstatuses that we already have.
34521 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
34522 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
34523 we start knowing some directory caches.
34524 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
34525 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
34526 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
34527 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
34528 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
34529 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
34530 Good in combination with --hash-password.
34531 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
34532 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
34534 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
34535 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
34536 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
34538 o Minor features (bridges):
34539 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
34540 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
34541 back to trying the bridge directly.
34542 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
34543 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
34545 o Minor features (controller):
34546 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
34547 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
34548 report the value as a "minimum skew."
34551 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
34552 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
34556 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
34557 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
34558 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
34559 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
34560 reported by tup and ioerror.
34561 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
34562 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
34564 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
34565 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34567 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34568 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
34569 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
34571 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
34572 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34573 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
34574 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34575 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
34576 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34577 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
34579 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
34580 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
34581 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34583 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
34584 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
34585 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
34586 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
34587 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
34590 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
34591 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
34592 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
34593 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
34594 lists for a few hours each day.
34596 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34597 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34598 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34599 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
34600 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
34601 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34602 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34603 rend_process_relay_cell().
34605 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34606 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34607 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34608 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34609 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34610 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34611 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
34612 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
34614 o Major bugfixes (other):
34615 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
34616 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
34617 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
34618 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34619 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34620 circuit cannibalization).
34621 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34622 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34623 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34624 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34625 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34626 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
34629 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
34630 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
34632 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
34633 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
34634 absent. Resolves bug 467.
34635 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
34636 a way to trigger this remotely.)
34637 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34638 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34639 were reporting the dir port.)
34640 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34641 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
34642 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
34643 the future. Fixes bug 434.
34644 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
34646 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
34647 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
34648 the onion key from getting rotated.
34649 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34650 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34651 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34652 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
34653 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34654 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
34655 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
34656 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34657 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34660 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
34661 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
34662 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
34663 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
34664 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
34665 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
34667 o Major features (directory system):
34668 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
34669 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
34670 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
34671 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
34672 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
34673 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
34674 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
34675 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
34676 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
34677 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
34678 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
34679 Partially implements proposal 122.
34680 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
34681 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
34684 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
34685 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
34686 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
34687 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
34689 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34690 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34691 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34692 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34693 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34694 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34695 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
34696 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
34697 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34699 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
34700 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
34702 - Allow certificates to include an address.
34703 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
34704 and download operations.
34705 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
34706 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
34707 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
34708 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
34709 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
34710 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
34712 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
34713 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
34716 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
34717 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
34718 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
34719 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
34721 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
34722 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
34723 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
34725 o Minor features (performance):
34726 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
34727 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
34728 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
34729 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
34730 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
34731 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
34732 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
34735 o Minor features (compilation):
34736 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
34737 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
34739 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
34740 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
34741 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
34742 stick around indefinitely.
34743 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
34745 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
34746 v3 directory authority.
34747 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
34748 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
34750 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
34751 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
34752 "moria on moria:9031."
34753 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
34754 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
34755 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
34756 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
34757 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
34758 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
34759 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
34760 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
34762 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
34763 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
34764 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
34765 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
34766 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
34767 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
34768 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
34769 downloads than for other types.
34771 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
34772 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
34774 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
34775 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
34776 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34778 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34779 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
34780 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34781 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
34782 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
34783 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
34784 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
34785 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
34787 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34788 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
34789 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
34790 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
34791 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34792 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
34793 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
34794 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34795 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
34796 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
34797 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
34799 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
34800 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
34803 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34804 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
34805 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
34806 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
34807 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
34808 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
34809 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
34810 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
34811 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
34812 so that they all take the same named flags.
34815 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
34816 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
34817 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
34820 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
34821 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
34822 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
34823 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
34824 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
34825 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
34827 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
34828 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
34829 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
34830 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
34831 annotations along with descriptors.
34832 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
34833 source, and its purpose.
34834 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
34836 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
34837 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
34838 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
34839 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
34842 o Major features (directory authorities):
34843 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
34845 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
34846 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
34847 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
34848 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
34849 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
34850 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
34852 o Major features (v3 directory system):
34853 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
34854 and download the descriptors listed in them.
34855 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
34856 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
34857 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
34859 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34860 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34861 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34862 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
34865 o Major bugfixes (performance):
34866 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
34867 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
34868 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
34869 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
34871 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
34872 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
34873 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
34874 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
34875 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
34876 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34878 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
34879 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
34881 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
34882 certificate is requested.
34883 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
34884 certificate requests.
34886 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
34887 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
34888 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
34889 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
34892 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34893 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34894 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34895 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34897 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
34898 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
34900 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
34901 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
34902 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34903 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
34904 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
34905 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
34906 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
34907 downloads more sensible.
34908 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
34909 another when serving certificates.
34911 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34912 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
34913 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
34914 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
34916 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
34917 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34918 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
34920 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34921 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34923 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
34924 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34925 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34926 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
34927 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34929 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
34930 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
34931 WARN-severity events.
34932 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34933 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
34934 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34936 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
34937 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
34938 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
34940 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34941 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34942 circuit cannibalization).
34944 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34945 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
34946 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
34947 new module, networkstatus.c.
34948 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
34949 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
34950 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
34951 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
34952 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
34953 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
34954 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
34955 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
34956 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
34958 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
34960 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
34961 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34964 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
34965 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
34966 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
34967 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
34969 o New directory authorities:
34970 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
34971 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
34973 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34974 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34975 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34977 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
34978 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
34979 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
34980 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
34981 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34982 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
34983 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
34984 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
34985 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
34986 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
34987 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34989 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34990 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34991 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34992 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34993 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34994 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34995 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
34996 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
34997 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
34999 o Minor features (security):
35000 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
35001 address maps to an internal address space.
35002 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
35003 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
35005 o Minor features (guard nodes):
35006 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
35007 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
35008 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
35009 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
35011 o Minor features (speed):
35012 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
35013 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
35014 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
35015 on big-endian hosts.)
35017 o Minor features (controller):
35018 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
35019 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
35020 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
35021 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
35024 o Removed features:
35025 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
35026 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
35027 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
35028 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
35029 implementation of proposal 104.
35030 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
35031 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
35032 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
35033 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
35034 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
35035 patch from Karsten Loesing.
35036 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
35037 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
35040 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
35041 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
35042 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35043 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
35044 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35045 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
35046 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
35047 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
35048 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
35049 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35050 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
35051 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
35052 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
35053 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35054 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
35055 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
35056 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
35057 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35058 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
35059 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
35061 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35062 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
35063 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
35065 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
35066 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
35067 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
35068 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
35071 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
35072 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
35073 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
35074 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35075 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
35078 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
35079 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
35082 o Major bugfixes (security):
35083 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
35084 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
35085 become more of a headache than it's worth.
35087 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35088 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35089 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35091 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35092 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35093 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35094 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35095 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35096 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35098 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35099 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35100 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35101 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35102 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
35104 o Minor features (controller):
35105 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35106 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35107 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35108 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35110 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35111 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
35112 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
35113 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35114 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
35115 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
35116 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
35117 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35119 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35120 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35121 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35122 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
35123 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35124 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35125 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35126 if we ran off the end of the list.
35127 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35128 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35129 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35130 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35131 every time we change any piece of our config.
35132 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35133 encourage people using them to stop.
35134 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
35136 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35137 servers to choose a circuit.
35138 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35139 unparseable piece of it.
35142 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
35143 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
35144 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
35145 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35148 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
35149 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
35150 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
35151 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
35152 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
35154 o New directory authorities:
35155 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
35158 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
35159 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
35160 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
35161 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
35163 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35164 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35165 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35167 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35168 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35169 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35170 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35171 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35172 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35174 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
35175 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
35176 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35179 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
35180 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
35181 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
35182 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
35186 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
35187 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
35188 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
35189 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
35191 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
35192 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
35194 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
35195 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
35196 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
35197 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
35198 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
35199 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35200 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35201 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35202 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35203 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
35206 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
35207 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
35208 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
35209 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
35210 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
35211 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
35213 o Removed features:
35214 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
35215 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
35216 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
35217 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
35220 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
35221 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
35222 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
35223 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
35224 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
35227 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35228 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35229 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35230 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35231 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
35232 reported by lodger.
35234 o Minor features (directory servers):
35235 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
35236 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
35238 o Minor features (directory voting):
35239 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
35242 o Minor features (security):
35243 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
35244 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35245 encourage people using them to stop.
35247 o Minor features (controller):
35248 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35249 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35250 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35251 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35252 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
35253 cookie authentication file, and config option
35254 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
35256 o Minor features (unit testing):
35257 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
35258 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
35259 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
35260 logging for the unit tests.
35262 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
35263 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35264 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35265 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35266 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35267 every time we change any piece of our config.
35268 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
35269 the future. Fixes bug 434.
35270 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
35272 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
35273 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
35274 the onion key from getting rotated.
35275 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
35276 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
35277 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
35280 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
35281 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
35282 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
35284 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
35285 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
35286 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
35287 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
35290 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
35291 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
35292 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
35293 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
35294 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
35295 TorK, etc. Or worse.
35297 o Major security fixes:
35298 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35299 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35302 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
35303 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
35304 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
35305 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
35307 o Major security fixes:
35308 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35309 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35311 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35312 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
35315 o Minor features (performance):
35316 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
35317 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
35318 performance-intensive.
35319 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35320 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
35321 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
35322 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
35323 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35324 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
35328 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
35329 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
35330 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
35331 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
35335 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
35336 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
35337 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
35338 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
35339 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
35341 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
35342 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
35343 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
35344 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
35346 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
35347 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
35348 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
35349 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
35350 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
35352 o Major features (experimental):
35353 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
35354 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
35355 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
35356 handling before it's ready for use.
35359 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
35360 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
35361 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
35362 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35363 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
35364 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
35366 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
35367 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
35368 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
35369 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
35370 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
35372 o Major bugfixes (directory):
35373 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
35374 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35376 o Minor features (controller):
35377 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
35378 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35379 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
35380 from Robert Hogan.)
35381 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
35382 from Robert Hogan.)
35383 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
35384 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
35386 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
35387 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
35388 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
35389 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
35390 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35391 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
35392 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
35395 o Minor features (misc):
35396 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
35398 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
35399 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
35400 the authority identity key.
35401 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
35403 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
35404 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
35405 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
35408 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
35409 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35410 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35411 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
35412 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35413 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35414 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35415 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35417 o Performance improvements:
35418 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
35420 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
35421 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
35424 o Deprecated and removed features:
35425 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
35426 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
35427 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
35428 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
35430 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35431 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
35432 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35433 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
35434 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
35435 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35436 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
35437 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
35438 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
35441 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
35442 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
35443 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35444 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
35445 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
35447 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
35448 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
35451 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35452 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
35453 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
35454 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
35455 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
35456 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
35457 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
35458 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
35459 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
35462 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
35463 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
35464 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
35465 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
35467 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35468 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
35470 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35471 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
35472 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
35473 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
35474 routerlist while inserting a new router.
35475 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
35476 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
35478 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
35479 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
35480 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
35482 o Major bugfixes (security):
35483 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
35485 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
35486 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
35487 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
35488 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
35489 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
35490 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
35491 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
35492 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
35493 guard list unless we need to.
35495 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
35496 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
35497 don't get overused as guards.
35499 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35500 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
35501 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
35502 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
35503 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
35505 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
35506 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
35507 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
35510 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35511 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35512 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
35513 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
35514 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
35515 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
35516 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
35517 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
35520 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
35521 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
35522 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
35523 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
35525 o Minor features (directory):
35526 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
35527 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
35528 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
35529 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
35531 o Minor build issues:
35532 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
35533 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
35534 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
35535 in the tarball, not as "x".
35538 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
35539 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
35540 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
35541 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
35542 forward on a lot of fronts.
35544 o Major features, server usability:
35545 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
35546 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
35547 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
35548 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
35550 o Major features, client usability:
35551 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
35552 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
35553 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
35554 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
35555 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
35556 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
35557 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
35558 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
35560 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
35561 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
35562 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
35563 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
35564 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
35565 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
35567 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
35568 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
35569 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
35571 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
35572 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
35573 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
35574 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
35575 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
35577 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
35578 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
35579 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
35580 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
35582 o Major features, other:
35583 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
35584 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
35585 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
35586 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
35587 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
35590 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
35591 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
35592 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
35595 o Minor fixes (resource management):
35596 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
35597 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
35598 our allocated connection limit.
35599 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
35600 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
35601 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
35602 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
35603 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
35605 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
35606 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
35607 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
35609 o Minor features (build):
35610 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
35611 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
35612 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
35613 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
35615 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
35616 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
35617 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
35618 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
35619 Use this version consistently in log messages.
35621 o Minor features (logging):
35622 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
35623 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
35624 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
35625 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
35626 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
35629 o Minor features (directory system):
35630 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
35631 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
35632 not to serve V2 directory information.
35633 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
35634 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
35635 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
35637 o Minor features (controller):
35638 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
35639 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
35641 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
35642 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
35643 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
35644 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
35645 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
35646 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
35648 o Minor features (hidden services):
35649 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
35650 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
35651 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
35652 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
35654 o Minor features (other):
35656 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
35657 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
35658 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
35659 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
35660 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
35661 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
35662 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
35663 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
35664 longer a completely silly thing to do.
35665 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
35666 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
35667 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
35668 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
35670 o Removed features:
35671 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
35672 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
35673 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
35674 back an error and close the connection.
35675 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
35676 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
35679 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35680 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
35681 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
35682 makes the log messages nicer.
35683 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
35684 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
35685 partial results on small file reads.
35687 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35688 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
35689 more often than they are allowed to appear.
35690 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
35691 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
35693 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
35694 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
35695 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
35696 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
35698 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35699 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
35700 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
35701 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
35702 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
35703 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
35704 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
35705 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35706 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
35707 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
35708 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
35710 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
35711 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
35712 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
35714 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
35715 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
35716 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
35717 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
35719 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35720 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
35721 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
35723 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
35724 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
35727 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35728 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
35729 implicit in other procedure arguments.
35730 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
35731 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
35732 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
35733 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
35734 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
35735 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
35736 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
35737 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
35738 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
35741 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
35742 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
35743 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
35744 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
35746 o Directory authority changes:
35747 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
35748 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
35749 or use hidden services.
35751 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35752 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
35753 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
35754 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
35755 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
35756 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
35757 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
35758 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
35759 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
35762 o Major bugfixes (security):
35763 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
35764 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
35765 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
35767 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
35768 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
35769 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
35770 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
35771 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
35772 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
35773 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
35774 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
35775 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
35776 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
35779 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
35780 purpose=controller.
35781 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
35782 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
35784 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
35785 having a hard time downloading.
35786 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
35787 partial results on small file reads.
35788 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
35789 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
35790 the gaps in the store get very large.
35793 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
35794 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
35796 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
35797 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
35800 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
35801 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
35802 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
35803 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
35804 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
35805 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
35807 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
35808 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
35809 free speech on the Internet.
35812 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
35813 get one we don't recognize.
35814 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
35815 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
35818 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
35820 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
35821 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
35822 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
35823 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
35826 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
35827 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
35830 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
35831 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
35832 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
35833 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
35834 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
35835 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
35836 ask for GUARDS too.
35839 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
35840 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
35841 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
35842 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
35843 on Win98 and friends again.
35845 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35846 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
35847 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
35850 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
35851 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
35852 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
35853 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
35854 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
35855 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
35856 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
35857 and maybe also bug 397.)
35859 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35860 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
35861 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
35863 o Minor bugfixes (server):
35864 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
35867 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
35868 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
35869 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
35870 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
35871 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
35873 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
35874 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
35875 load on authorities.
35877 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35878 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
35879 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
35880 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
35882 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
35884 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
35885 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
35886 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
35887 the last of bug 326.)
35888 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
35889 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
35893 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
35894 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35895 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
35896 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
35897 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
35898 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
35899 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
35901 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
35902 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
35904 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35905 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
35906 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
35908 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
35909 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
35910 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
35912 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35913 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
35914 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
35915 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
35917 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
35918 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
35920 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
35921 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
35922 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
35925 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35926 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
35927 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
35928 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
35929 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
35930 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
35931 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
35932 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
35933 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
35934 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
35935 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
35936 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
35937 other than file-not-found.
35938 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
35939 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
35940 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
35941 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
35942 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
35943 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
35944 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
35945 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
35946 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
35947 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
35948 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
35949 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
35950 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
35951 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
35952 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
35954 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
35956 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
35957 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
35959 o Minor features (controller):
35960 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
35961 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
35962 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
35964 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
35965 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35966 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
35967 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
35968 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
35969 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
35970 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
35971 connected or resolved cell.
35973 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35974 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
35975 some profiles, but not others.)
35976 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
35977 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
35978 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
35981 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
35983 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
35984 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
35985 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
35986 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
35987 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
35988 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
35989 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
35990 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
35991 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
35992 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
35993 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
35994 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
35995 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
35996 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
35997 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
35999 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
36002 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
36003 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
36004 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
36005 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
36006 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
36007 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
36008 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
36010 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
36011 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
36012 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
36013 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
36014 buckets go absurdly negative.
36015 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
36016 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
36019 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
36020 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
36021 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
36022 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
36023 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
36024 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
36025 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
36026 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
36029 o Major bugfixes (other):
36030 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
36031 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
36032 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
36033 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
36035 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
36037 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
36038 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
36040 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
36041 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
36042 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
36043 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
36044 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
36045 to wait for 0.2.0.)
36047 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
36048 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
36049 possible memory-stomping bugs.
36050 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
36051 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
36053 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
36054 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
36055 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
36056 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
36057 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
36058 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
36060 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36061 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
36062 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
36063 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
36065 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
36066 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
36067 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
36068 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
36069 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
36070 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
36071 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
36072 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
36073 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
36074 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
36075 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
36076 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
36077 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
36079 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
36080 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
36081 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
36082 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
36083 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
36084 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
36085 to the resulting address.
36088 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
36089 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
36090 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
36091 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
36094 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
36095 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
36097 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
36098 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
36099 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
36100 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
36101 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
36102 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
36103 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
36104 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
36105 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
36106 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
36107 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
36108 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
36109 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
36110 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
36111 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
36112 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
36113 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
36116 o Minor features (controller):
36117 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
36118 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
36119 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
36120 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
36121 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
36122 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
36123 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
36127 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
36129 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
36130 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
36131 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
36132 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
36133 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
36134 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
36137 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
36138 weren't planning to resolve.
36139 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
36140 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
36141 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
36142 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
36143 the controller from learning about current events.
36145 o Minor features (more controller status events):
36146 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
36147 learn when our address changes.
36148 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
36149 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
36150 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
36151 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
36153 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
36154 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
36155 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
36156 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
36157 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
36158 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
36159 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
36160 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
36161 are accepted by a directory.
36162 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
36163 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
36164 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
36165 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
36166 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
36168 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
36169 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
36170 about changes to DNS server status.
36172 o Minor features (directory):
36173 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
36174 too much load to the exit nodes.
36177 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
36179 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
36180 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
36181 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
36182 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
36183 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
36185 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
36186 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
36187 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
36189 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
36190 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
36191 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
36192 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
36193 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
36194 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
36195 config options if you like.
36197 o Minor features (config and docs):
36198 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
36199 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
36200 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
36201 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
36202 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
36204 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
36205 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
36206 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
36207 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
36208 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
36210 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
36211 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
36212 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
36213 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
36214 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
36215 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
36216 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
36217 documentation: "make check-docs".
36218 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
36219 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
36221 o Minor features (DNS):
36222 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
36223 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
36224 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
36225 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
36226 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
36227 our tests for DNS hijacking.
36229 o Minor features (directory):
36230 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
36231 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
36232 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
36233 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
36234 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
36235 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
36236 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
36237 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
36238 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
36239 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
36240 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
36241 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
36242 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
36243 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
36244 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
36245 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
36246 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
36247 for the thing we're trying to download.
36248 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
36249 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
36250 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
36252 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
36253 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
36254 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
36257 o Minor features (controller):
36258 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
36259 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
36261 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
36262 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
36263 entry guard status as it changes.
36265 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
36266 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
36267 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
36268 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
36269 to set log options.
36270 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
36271 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
36272 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
36273 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
36276 o Major bugfixes (security):
36277 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36278 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36279 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36280 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36282 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
36283 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
36284 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
36285 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
36286 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
36288 o Major bugfixes (other):
36289 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
36290 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
36291 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
36292 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
36294 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
36295 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
36296 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
36297 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
36298 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
36299 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
36303 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36304 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36305 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
36306 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
36307 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
36309 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
36310 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
36312 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
36313 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
36314 family lists conveniently.
36315 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
36316 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
36317 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
36319 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
36320 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
36322 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
36323 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
36324 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
36325 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
36326 if their identity keys are as expected.
36327 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
36328 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
36329 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
36331 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36332 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
36333 reported by Mike Perry.
36334 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
36335 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
36336 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
36337 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
36340 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
36341 o Security bugfixes:
36342 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36343 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36344 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36345 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36349 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36350 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36351 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
36354 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
36356 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
36357 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
36358 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
36361 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
36362 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
36363 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
36364 watching for STREAM events.
36365 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
36366 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
36367 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
36368 operations, for profiling.
36371 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
36372 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
36373 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
36374 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
36375 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
36376 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
36378 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
36382 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36383 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36384 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
36385 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
36386 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
36388 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
36389 correctly in the Windows installer.
36390 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36391 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36392 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
36393 MIPSpro C compiler.
36394 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
36395 when we're running as a client.
36398 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
36400 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
36401 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
36402 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
36403 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
36404 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36405 its circuits on demand.
36406 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
36407 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
36408 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
36409 connections more stable on average.
36410 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36411 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36412 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36414 o Security bugfixes:
36415 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36416 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36419 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36421 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
36422 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
36423 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36424 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36425 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36426 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36427 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36428 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36431 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
36433 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
36434 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
36435 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
36436 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
36437 routers for even longer.
36438 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
36439 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
36440 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
36441 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
36442 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
36443 caching HTTP proxies.
36444 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
36447 o Minor features, controller:
36448 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
36449 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
36450 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
36451 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
36453 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
36454 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
36455 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
36456 working much like those for circuit events.
36457 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
36458 about the current status of a router.
36459 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
36460 a router's status has changed.
36461 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
36462 can tell which events and features are supported.
36463 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
36464 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
36466 o Security bugfixes:
36467 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36468 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36471 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
36472 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
36473 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
36474 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
36475 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36476 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
36477 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
36478 long nicknames where appropriate.
36479 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
36480 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
36481 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
36482 chews through many circuits before giving up.
36483 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
36484 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
36485 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
36486 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
36487 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
36488 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
36490 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
36491 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
36492 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
36494 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
36495 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
36496 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
36497 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
36498 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
36499 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
36500 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
36501 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
36502 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
36503 (reported by fookoowa).
36504 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
36505 and reported by some Centos users.
36506 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
36507 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
36508 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
36509 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
36510 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
36511 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
36512 before we check for libevent.
36515 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
36517 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
36518 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
36519 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
36520 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
36521 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
36522 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
36523 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
36524 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
36525 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
36526 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
36527 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
36528 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
36529 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
36530 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
36531 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
36532 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
36533 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
36534 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
36535 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
36536 lets you turn it off.
36537 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
36538 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
36539 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
36540 us into the directory more quickly.
36542 o New/improved config options:
36543 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
36544 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
36545 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
36546 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
36547 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
36548 all the machines on the same subnet.
36549 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
36550 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
36551 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
36552 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
36553 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
36554 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
36555 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
36556 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
36557 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
36558 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
36560 o Minor features, controller:
36561 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
36562 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
36563 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
36564 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
36565 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
36566 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
36567 for more information.
36568 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
36569 best guess to the user.
36570 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
36571 descriptor has changed.
36572 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
36574 o Minor features, other:
36575 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
36576 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
36577 useful to the network.
36578 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
36579 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
36580 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
36581 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
36582 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
36583 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
36584 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
36585 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
36586 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
36587 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
36588 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
36589 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
36590 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
36591 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
36592 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
36594 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
36595 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
36596 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
36597 could return an unnamed server instead.
36598 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
36599 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
36600 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
36601 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
36602 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
36603 a more attractive target for compromise.)
36604 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
36605 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
36606 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
36608 o Major bugfixes, other:
36609 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
36610 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
36611 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
36612 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
36613 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36614 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36615 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
36616 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36617 its circuits on demand.
36618 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
36619 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36620 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36621 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36623 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
36624 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36625 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36626 we don't recognize.
36627 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36629 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
36630 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
36631 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36632 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
36633 "extendcircuit" request.
36634 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36635 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36636 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
36638 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
36639 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
36640 instead of "X resolved to X".
36641 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
36642 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
36643 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
36644 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
36645 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
36646 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
36647 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
36648 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
36649 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
36651 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
36652 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
36653 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
36654 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
36655 result more than once.
36656 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
36657 non-versioning dirservers.
36658 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
36659 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
36661 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
36662 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
36663 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
36664 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
36665 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
36666 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
36667 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
36668 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
36669 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
36671 o Packaging, features:
36672 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
36673 now universal binaries.
36674 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
36675 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
36676 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
36678 o Packaging, bugfixes:
36679 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
36680 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
36681 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
36682 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
36684 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
36685 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
36686 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
36689 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
36690 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
36691 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
36695 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
36697 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36698 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36699 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
36700 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
36701 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
36702 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
36703 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
36704 it can't resolve its hostname.
36707 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
36708 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
36709 "extendcircuit" request.
36710 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36711 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36712 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
36713 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
36715 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
36716 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
36717 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
36719 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
36720 methods: these are known to be buggy.
36721 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36722 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36723 we don't recognize.
36726 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
36728 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
36729 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
36730 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
36731 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
36732 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
36733 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
36734 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
36735 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
36736 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
36737 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
36738 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
36739 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
36740 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
36741 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
36742 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
36743 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
36744 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
36745 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
36746 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
36747 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
36748 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
36749 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
36750 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
36751 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
36754 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
36755 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
36756 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
36757 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
36758 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
36759 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
36760 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
36761 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
36762 recommendation system saner.)
36763 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
36765 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
36766 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
36767 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
36768 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
36769 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
36770 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
36771 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
36772 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
36773 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
36774 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
36775 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
36776 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
36777 your ORPort is set.
36778 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
36779 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
36780 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
36781 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
36782 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
36783 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
36784 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
36785 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
36786 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
36787 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
36788 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
36789 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
36791 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
36792 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
36793 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
36794 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
36795 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
36796 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
36799 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
36800 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
36801 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
36802 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
36803 our DirPort now, etc.
36804 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
36805 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
36806 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
36807 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
36808 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
36809 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
36810 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
36812 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
36813 whether the config options are bad or good.
36814 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
36815 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
36816 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
36817 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
36818 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
36819 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
36820 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
36821 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
36824 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
36825 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
36826 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
36827 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
36828 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
36829 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
36830 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
36831 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
36832 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
36833 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
36834 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
36835 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
36836 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
36837 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
36838 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
36839 of it), is not therefore "up".
36840 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
36841 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
36842 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
36843 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
36844 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
36845 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
36848 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
36850 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
36851 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
36852 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
36853 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
36854 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
36855 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
36856 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
36857 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
36858 test reachability, so you won't publish.
36861 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
36862 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
36863 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
36864 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
36865 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
36867 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
36868 own server descriptor yet.
36871 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
36873 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
36874 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
36875 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
36876 make sure to test via one of these.
36877 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
36878 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
36879 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
36880 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
36881 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
36883 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
36884 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
36885 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
36888 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
36889 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
36890 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
36891 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
36892 directory authority.
36893 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
36894 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
36895 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
36896 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
36899 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
36900 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
36901 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
36903 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
36904 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
36905 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
36906 current guards when picking a new guard.
36907 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
36908 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
36909 when we had more than one pending.
36910 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
36911 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
36912 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
36913 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
36914 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
36915 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
36916 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
36917 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
36918 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
36919 debug the reachability problems better.
36921 o Log / documentation fixes:
36922 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
36923 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
36924 about protocol violations by others.
36925 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
36926 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
36927 about what happened to our old torrc.
36930 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
36932 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
36934 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
36935 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
36936 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
36937 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
36940 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
36942 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
36943 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
36944 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
36945 old ORPort and receive connections.
36946 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
36948 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
36949 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
36950 and network-statuses.
36951 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
36952 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
36953 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
36954 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
36956 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
36959 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
36960 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
36961 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
36964 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
36966 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
36967 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
36968 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
36969 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
36970 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
36973 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
36974 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
36976 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
36977 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
36978 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
36979 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
36980 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
36981 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
36982 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
36983 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
36984 rather than not sending anything back at all.
36985 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
36986 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
36987 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
36988 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
36989 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
36990 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
36991 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
36992 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
36993 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
36994 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
36995 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
36996 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
36997 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
36998 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
36999 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
37000 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
37001 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
37002 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
37003 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
37004 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
37005 default ulimit -n is 1024.
37008 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
37009 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
37010 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
37011 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
37014 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
37016 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
37017 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
37018 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
37019 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
37020 entry guards running these flawed versions.
37021 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
37022 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
37023 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
37024 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
37025 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
37028 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
37029 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
37031 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
37032 and it is confusing some users.
37033 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
37034 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
37035 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
37036 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
37037 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
37040 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
37042 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
37043 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
37044 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
37045 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
37046 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
37047 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
37048 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
37049 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
37050 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
37051 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
37052 dirport is set for now.
37054 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
37055 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
37056 unattached before we fail it?
37057 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
37058 at least this many seconds ago.
37059 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
37060 at least this many seconds ago.
37063 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
37064 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
37065 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
37066 or resolve-wait stream.
37067 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
37068 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
37069 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
37070 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
37071 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
37072 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
37073 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
37074 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
37076 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
37077 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
37078 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
37079 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
37080 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
37081 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
37082 given as hex digests.
37083 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
37084 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
37085 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
37086 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
37087 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
37088 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
37089 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
37090 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
37093 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37094 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
37095 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
37096 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
37097 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
37098 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
37099 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
37100 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
37101 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
37102 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
37103 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
37106 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
37107 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
37108 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
37109 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
37110 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
37111 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
37112 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
37115 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
37116 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
37117 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
37118 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
37119 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
37120 misreading their logs.
37121 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
37122 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
37123 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
37124 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
37125 valid router descriptors.
37126 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
37127 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
37128 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
37129 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
37130 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
37131 silently resetting it to its default.
37132 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
37134 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
37137 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
37138 use clean circuits.
37139 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
37140 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
37141 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
37142 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
37143 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
37145 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
37146 because older Tors do not understand it.
37147 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
37151 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
37152 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37153 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
37154 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
37155 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
37156 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
37157 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
37158 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
37159 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
37160 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
37161 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
37163 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
37164 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
37165 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
37166 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
37168 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
37169 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
37172 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
37173 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
37174 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37175 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37176 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37177 without getting overloaded.
37178 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
37180 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
37181 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
37182 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
37183 be forward-compatible.
37184 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
37185 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
37186 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
37187 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
37189 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
37190 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
37191 and OR conns to port 443.
37192 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
37193 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
37195 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
37196 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
37197 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
37198 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
37199 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
37200 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
37201 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
37204 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
37205 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37206 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
37207 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
37209 o Other important bugfixes:
37210 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37211 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37212 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37213 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37215 o Backported features:
37216 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37217 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37218 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37219 without getting overloaded.
37220 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
37221 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
37222 503's whenever they feel busy.
37223 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
37224 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
37225 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
37226 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
37227 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
37230 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
37231 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37232 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
37233 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
37234 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
37235 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
37236 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
37237 know if the crashes continue.
37238 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
37239 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
37240 seg faults in at least some cases.)
37241 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
37242 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
37243 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
37246 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
37247 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
37248 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
37249 try to be a bit more fair.
37250 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
37251 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
37252 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
37253 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
37254 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
37255 bug that let it go negative.
37256 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
37257 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
37258 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
37259 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
37260 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37261 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37262 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37263 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37264 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
37265 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
37266 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
37269 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
37271 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
37272 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
37273 service descriptors.
37276 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
37277 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
37278 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
37279 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
37281 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
37282 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
37283 versions *are* still recommended.
37284 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
37285 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
37286 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
37287 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
37288 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
37289 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
37290 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
37291 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
37293 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
37294 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
37295 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
37296 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
37297 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
37298 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
37299 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
37300 on it. Not used by clients yet.
37301 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
37302 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
37303 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
37304 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
37305 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
37306 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
37307 established a circuit.
37308 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
37309 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
37310 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
37311 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
37314 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
37315 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37316 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
37317 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
37318 quickly enough. Oops.
37319 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
37321 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37322 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
37325 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
37326 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37327 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
37328 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
37329 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
37330 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
37331 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
37332 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
37333 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
37334 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
37335 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
37336 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
37337 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
37338 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
37339 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
37340 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
37341 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
37344 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
37345 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
37346 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
37347 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
37348 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
37349 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
37350 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
37351 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
37352 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
37353 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
37354 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
37355 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
37356 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
37357 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
37358 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
37359 connections more reliable.
37362 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
37363 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
37364 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
37365 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
37366 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
37367 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
37368 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
37369 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
37370 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
37371 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
37372 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
37373 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
37374 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
37375 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
37379 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
37380 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
37381 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
37382 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
37383 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
37384 need to be uint64_t's.
37385 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
37386 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
37387 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
37389 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
37391 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
37392 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
37393 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
37394 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
37395 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
37396 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
37397 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
37399 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
37400 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
37401 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
37402 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
37403 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
37404 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
37405 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
37406 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
37407 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
37408 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
37409 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
37410 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
37411 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
37414 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
37415 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
37416 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
37417 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
37418 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
37419 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
37420 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
37422 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
37423 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
37424 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
37425 can answer v2 directory requests too.
37426 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
37427 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
37428 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
37429 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
37431 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
37432 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
37433 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
37434 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
37435 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
37436 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
37437 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
37438 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
37439 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
37440 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
37441 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
37442 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
37443 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
37444 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
37445 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
37447 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
37448 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
37451 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
37452 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37453 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37454 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37455 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37456 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
37457 too -- so detect and avoid this.
37458 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
37460 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
37461 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37462 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37463 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
37464 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
37465 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37466 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37467 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
37468 rendezvous circuits.
37469 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
37471 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37472 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
37473 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
37474 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
37475 advertising it because of hibernation.
37476 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
37477 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37478 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37479 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37480 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37481 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37482 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
37483 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
37484 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
37485 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
37486 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
37487 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
37488 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
37489 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
37492 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
37493 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37494 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37495 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37496 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37497 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
37498 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
37499 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37500 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37501 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37502 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37503 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37504 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37505 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37506 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
37507 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
37508 connections once a week.
37509 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37510 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37511 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
37512 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
37513 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
37514 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
37516 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
37517 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
37518 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
37520 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37521 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
37522 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
37523 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
37524 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
37525 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
37526 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
37527 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
37528 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
37529 firewall options forbid.
37530 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
37531 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
37532 can only proxy to certain destinations.
37533 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
37534 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
37535 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
37536 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
37537 aids some statistical attacks.
37538 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
37539 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
37540 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
37541 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
37543 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37544 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
37545 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
37546 server descriptor sometimes.
37547 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
37548 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
37549 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
37550 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
37551 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
37552 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
37553 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
37554 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
37556 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
37557 case the controller wants to change that too.
37558 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
37559 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
37560 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
37561 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
37563 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
37564 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
37565 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
37567 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
37568 descriptors that they know they will reject.
37570 o Features and updates:
37571 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
37572 significantly faster.
37573 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
37574 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
37575 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
37576 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
37577 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
37578 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
37579 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
37580 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
37581 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
37582 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
37583 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
37584 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
37585 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
37586 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
37587 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
37588 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
37589 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
37590 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
37591 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
37592 as authoritative dirserver.
37593 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
37594 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
37595 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
37598 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
37599 o Usability improvements:
37600 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
37601 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
37603 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
37604 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
37605 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
37607 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
37608 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
37609 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
37610 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
37611 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
37612 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
37613 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
37614 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
37615 memory leaks better.
37616 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
37617 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
37618 their operators to pay close attention.
37619 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
37620 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
37622 o Performance improvements:
37623 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
37624 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
37625 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
37626 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
37627 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
37628 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
37629 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
37630 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
37631 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
37632 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
37633 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
37634 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
37635 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
37636 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
37637 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
37638 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
37639 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
37641 o Security improvements:
37642 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
37643 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
37644 fingerprint of server.
37645 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
37646 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
37647 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
37649 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37650 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
37651 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
37652 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
37653 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
37654 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
37655 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
37656 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
37657 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
37658 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
37659 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
37660 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
37661 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
37662 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
37663 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
37664 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
37665 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
37666 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
37667 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
37668 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
37669 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
37671 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
37672 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
37673 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
37675 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
37676 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
37678 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
37679 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
37680 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
37681 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
37682 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
37683 of the controller protocol.
37684 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
37685 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
37686 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
37689 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
37690 o New features (major):
37691 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
37692 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
37693 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
37694 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
37695 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
37696 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
37697 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
37698 we're using a default DirPort.
37699 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
37701 o New features (minor):
37702 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
37703 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
37704 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
37705 mirrors still cache and serve it).
37706 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
37707 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
37708 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
37709 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
37710 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
37711 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
37712 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
37713 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
37714 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
37715 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
37716 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
37717 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
37718 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
37719 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
37720 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
37722 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
37723 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
37724 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
37725 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
37726 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
37727 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
37728 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
37729 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
37731 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
37732 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
37733 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
37734 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
37735 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
37736 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
37737 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
37738 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
37739 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
37740 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
37742 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
37743 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
37744 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
37745 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
37746 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
37748 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37749 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
37750 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
37752 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
37753 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
37755 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
37756 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
37757 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
37758 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
37759 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
37760 don't warn twice about the same name.
37761 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
37762 if we've not heard of the server.
37763 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
37764 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
37767 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
37768 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37769 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
37770 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
37771 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
37772 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
37773 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
37774 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
37775 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
37776 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
37777 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
37778 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
37779 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
37780 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
37781 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
37784 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
37785 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
37786 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
37787 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
37788 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
37790 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
37791 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
37792 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
37793 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
37794 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
37795 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
37799 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
37800 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
37801 nickname) is reachable by you.
37802 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
37805 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37806 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
37807 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
37808 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
37809 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
37810 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
37811 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
37812 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
37813 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
37814 we fail to connect).
37815 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
37816 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
37817 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
37818 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
37820 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
37821 it was self-testing that told us so.
37824 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
37825 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
37826 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
37827 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
37828 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
37829 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
37830 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
37831 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
37832 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
37833 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
37834 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
37835 exit policy using him for any exits.
37836 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
37839 o New controller features/fixes:
37840 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
37841 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
37842 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
37843 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
37844 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
37845 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
37846 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
37847 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
37848 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
37850 o Start on the new directory design:
37851 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
37852 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
37854 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
37855 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
37856 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
37857 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
37859 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
37860 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
37861 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
37862 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
37863 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
37864 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
37865 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
37866 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
37869 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
37870 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
37871 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
37872 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
37873 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
37874 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
37875 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
37876 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
37877 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
37878 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
37880 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
37881 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
37882 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
37883 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
37884 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
37885 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
37886 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
37887 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
37888 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
37890 o Config option changes:
37891 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
37892 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
37893 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
37894 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
37895 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
37896 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
37898 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37899 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
37900 people have started using them for spam too.
37901 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
37902 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
37903 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
37904 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
37905 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
37906 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
37907 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
37908 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
37909 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
37910 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
37911 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
37912 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
37913 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
37914 services faster on the service end.
37915 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
37916 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
37917 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
37918 it a fair shake next time we try.
37919 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
37920 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
37921 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
37922 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
37923 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
37924 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
37925 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
37926 able to discover them.
37927 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
37928 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
37929 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
37930 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
37931 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
37932 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
37933 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
37934 testing for reachability.
37935 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
37936 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
37938 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
37940 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
37941 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
37944 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
37945 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
37947 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37948 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
37949 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
37950 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
37953 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
37954 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37955 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
37957 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
37958 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
37961 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
37962 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
37965 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
37966 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
37967 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
37968 options, getinfo keys.
37971 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
37972 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37973 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
37974 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
37975 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
37976 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
37977 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
37979 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
37980 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
37984 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
37985 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
37986 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
37988 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
37990 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
37991 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
37992 circuit events and we go offline.
37993 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
37994 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
37995 you don't have enough intro points already.
37997 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
37998 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
37999 many bytes we've used in this time period.
38000 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
38001 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
38002 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
38003 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
38004 enabled by default yet.
38006 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
38007 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
38008 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
38009 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38010 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38013 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
38014 o New directory servers:
38015 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38017 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38018 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38019 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38020 pthreads libraries.
38021 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
38022 claims its dirport is 0.
38023 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
38024 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
38028 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
38029 o New directory servers:
38030 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38032 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
38033 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
38035 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
38036 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
38037 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
38038 ports that have changed.
38039 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38041 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
38042 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
38043 Windows-style errno back.
38044 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
38046 want to make it an NT service.
38047 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
38048 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
38049 name, give the full name in our response.
38050 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
38051 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
38052 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
38053 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38054 pthreads libraries.
38056 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
38057 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
38061 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
38062 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
38063 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
38064 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
38065 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
38068 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
38069 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38070 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
38071 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
38072 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38073 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38074 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38075 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
38078 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
38080 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38081 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38082 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38083 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
38084 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
38085 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
38087 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
38088 temporarily unreachable.
38089 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
38093 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
38094 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
38095 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
38096 our protocol works.
38097 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
38101 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
38102 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
38103 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
38104 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
38105 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
38109 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
38110 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
38111 libevent before 1.1a.
38114 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
38116 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
38117 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
38118 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
38119 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
38120 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
38122 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
38123 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
38124 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
38125 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
38126 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
38127 of CPU time plus memory.
38128 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
38129 normal web requests.
38130 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
38131 tor_lookup_hostname().
38132 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
38133 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
38134 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
38135 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
38136 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
38137 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
38139 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
38140 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
38141 HttpProxyAuthenticator
38142 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
38143 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
38144 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
38146 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
38147 the user asks you to.
38148 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
38149 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
38150 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
38151 their descriptors are being rejected.
38152 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
38156 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
38158 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
38159 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
38160 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
38162 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
38164 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
38166 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
38167 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
38168 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
38169 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
38170 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
38171 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
38172 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
38173 keys) from the exit server's process.
38174 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
38175 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
38176 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
38177 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
38178 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
38179 point at your Tor server.
38180 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
38181 you're not sending a socks reply back.
38184 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
38185 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
38186 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
38187 to make it easier to write controllers.
38190 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
38192 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
38193 installing on Tiger.
38194 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
38195 complain during installation.
38196 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
38197 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
38198 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
38199 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
38200 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
38201 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
38203 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
38204 something more reasonable when first installing.
38205 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
38208 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
38210 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
38211 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
38213 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
38214 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
38215 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
38216 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
38217 when using the default exit policy.
38218 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
38219 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
38220 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
38221 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
38222 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
38223 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
38224 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
38225 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
38226 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
38227 we fetched a new directory.
38228 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
38229 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
38232 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
38233 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
38234 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
38235 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
38236 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
38237 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
38238 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
38239 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
38241 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
38242 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
38243 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
38244 save memory on systems that need to fork.
38245 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
38246 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
38247 is valid without actually launching Tor.
38248 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
38249 rather than just rejecting it.
38252 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
38254 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
38255 we didn't like its cert.
38257 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
38258 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
38259 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
38260 on patch from Adam Langley.
38261 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
38262 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
38263 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
38264 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
38266 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
38267 directory every time you regenerate it.
38268 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
38269 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
38272 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
38273 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38274 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38275 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
38276 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
38279 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
38281 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38282 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
38283 TLS errors better in other situations too.
38284 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
38285 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
38286 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
38287 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
38288 and don't log when you are.
38289 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
38290 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
38292 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
38293 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
38294 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
38295 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
38296 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
38299 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
38300 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38301 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
38302 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
38303 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
38304 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
38305 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
38306 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
38307 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
38308 nickname+key are allowed.
38309 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
38310 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
38311 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
38312 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
38313 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
38314 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
38315 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
38316 have quite wrong clocks).
38317 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
38318 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
38319 - Efficiency improvements:
38320 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
38321 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
38322 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
38323 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
38324 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
38325 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
38326 lowercase and be done with it.
38327 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
38328 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
38329 to abandon partially built circuits.
38330 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
38331 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
38333 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
38335 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
38336 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
38337 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
38338 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
38340 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
38341 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
38343 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38344 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
38345 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
38346 obeying the exit policy internally.
38347 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
38348 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
38350 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
38351 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
38352 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
38353 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
38355 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
38356 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
38357 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
38358 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
38359 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
38361 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
38362 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
38363 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
38364 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
38365 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
38366 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
38367 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
38368 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
38369 descriptors we just dropped.
38370 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
38371 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
38372 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
38373 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
38374 artificially capped at 500kB.
38377 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
38378 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38379 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
38380 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
38381 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
38382 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
38383 busy for more than 100 seconds.
38386 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
38387 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
38388 - Fixes on reachability detection:
38389 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
38390 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
38391 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
38392 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
38393 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
38394 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
38395 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
38396 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
38397 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
38398 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
38399 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
38400 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
38401 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
38402 server not already connected to them.
38403 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
38404 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
38405 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
38407 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
38409 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
38410 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
38411 are in a different state than they actually are.
38412 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
38413 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
38414 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
38416 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
38417 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
38418 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
38420 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
38421 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
38422 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
38423 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
38424 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
38425 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
38426 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
38428 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
38429 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
38430 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
38431 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
38434 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
38435 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38436 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
38437 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
38438 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
38439 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
38440 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
38441 creating actual system users.
38442 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
38443 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
38447 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
38449 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
38450 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
38451 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
38452 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
38453 hidden services better.
38454 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
38456 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
38457 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
38458 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
38459 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
38460 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
38461 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
38462 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
38463 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
38464 patch by Matt Edman).
38465 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
38466 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
38467 required exit node for certain sites.
38468 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
38469 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
38470 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
38471 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
38472 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
38473 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
38474 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
38475 rather than just "success" or "failure".
38476 - A more sane version numbering system. See
38477 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
38478 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
38479 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
38481 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
38482 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
38483 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
38484 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
38485 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
38486 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
38487 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
38489 o Robustness/stability fixes:
38490 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
38491 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
38492 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
38494 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
38495 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
38496 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
38498 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
38499 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
38500 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
38502 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
38503 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
38504 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
38505 that will want high uptime circuits.
38506 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
38507 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
38508 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
38509 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
38510 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
38511 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
38512 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
38513 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
38514 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
38515 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
38516 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
38517 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
38518 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
38519 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
38520 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
38521 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
38522 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
38523 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
38524 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
38525 when we try to launch one.
38526 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
38527 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
38528 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
38529 "ShutdownWaitLength".
38530 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
38531 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
38532 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
38533 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
38534 and to take errno into account where possible.
38537 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
38538 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
38539 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
38540 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
38541 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
38542 file more reasonable.
38543 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
38544 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
38545 addresses -- it won't.
38546 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
38547 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
38548 for google.com" problem.
38549 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
38550 so it's not just "unknown platform".
38551 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
38552 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
38553 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
38554 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
38556 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
38557 they could use instead.
38558 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
38559 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
38560 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
38561 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
38562 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
38563 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
38564 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
38565 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
38566 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
38568 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
38572 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
38573 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
38575 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
38576 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
38577 private-IP addresses.
38578 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
38579 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
38581 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
38582 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
38583 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
38584 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
38585 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
38586 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
38587 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
38589 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
38590 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
38591 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
38592 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
38593 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
38594 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
38595 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
38596 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
38598 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
38600 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
38601 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
38602 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
38603 whether the server is hibernating.
38606 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
38607 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
38608 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
38609 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
38610 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
38611 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
38612 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
38613 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
38614 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
38615 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
38616 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
38617 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
38618 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
38619 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
38620 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
38622 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
38623 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
38624 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
38625 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
38626 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
38627 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
38628 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
38629 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
38630 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
38631 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
38632 existing torrc files.
38633 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
38636 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
38637 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38638 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
38639 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
38640 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
38641 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
38642 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
38643 the win32 SYSTEM account.
38644 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
38645 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
38646 file descriptors available.
38647 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
38648 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
38649 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
38652 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
38653 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38654 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
38655 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
38657 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
38658 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
38659 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
38660 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
38661 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
38663 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
38664 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
38665 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
38666 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
38667 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
38668 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
38669 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
38670 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
38671 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
38672 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
38673 800kB/s of capacity.
38674 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
38677 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
38678 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38679 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
38680 need as much processor time.
38681 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
38682 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
38683 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
38684 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
38685 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
38686 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
38687 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
38688 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
38689 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
38690 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
38691 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
38692 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
38694 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
38695 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
38696 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
38697 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
38698 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
38699 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
38700 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
38703 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
38704 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
38705 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
38707 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
38708 style address, then we'd crash.
38709 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
38710 a dirserver is broken.
38711 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
38713 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
38714 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
38715 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
38717 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
38718 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
38719 name out of the warning/assert messages.
38720 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
38721 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
38722 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
38724 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
38725 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
38726 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
38728 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
38730 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
38731 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
38732 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
38733 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
38734 values at once couldn't work.
38735 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
38736 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
38737 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
38738 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
38739 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
38740 they can handle any number of routers.
38741 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
38742 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
38743 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
38744 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
38745 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
38746 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
38747 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
38748 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
38749 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
38752 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
38753 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38754 - Make hibernation actually work.
38755 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
38756 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
38757 don't use the stream status code.
38760 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
38762 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
38763 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
38765 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
38768 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
38769 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
38770 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
38771 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
38772 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
38773 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
38774 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
38775 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
38776 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
38777 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
38779 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38780 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
38781 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
38782 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
38783 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
38784 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
38785 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
38786 - Make unit tests work on win32.
38789 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
38790 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
38791 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
38793 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
38794 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
38795 than just chopping them off.
38796 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
38798 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38799 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
38800 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
38801 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
38802 right after sending the begin cell.
38803 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
38804 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
38805 exit nodes too. Oops.
38808 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
38809 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
38810 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
38811 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
38812 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
38813 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
38814 the user knows which one it's talking about.
38815 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
38816 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
38817 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
38820 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
38821 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38822 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
38823 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
38825 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
38827 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
38828 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
38829 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
38831 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
38832 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
38833 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
38834 Clip rather than rejecting.
38835 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
38836 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
38839 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
38840 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
38841 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
38842 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
38844 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
38847 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
38848 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38849 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
38850 win32 socket errors better.
38852 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38853 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
38856 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
38857 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38858 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
38859 so we don't see those messages days later.
38861 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38862 - Make tor-resolve work again.
38863 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
38864 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
38867 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
38868 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38869 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
38870 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
38872 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
38873 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
38874 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
38877 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
38878 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38879 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
38880 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
38881 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
38882 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
38883 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
38884 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
38885 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
38887 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
38888 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
38889 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
38890 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
38892 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
38893 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
38896 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
38897 hibernation properties by
38898 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
38899 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
38900 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
38901 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
38902 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
38903 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
38904 get back to normal.)
38905 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
38907 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
38908 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
38909 to fill the last cell completely.
38910 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
38913 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
38914 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38915 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
38916 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
38917 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
38918 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
38919 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
38920 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
38921 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
38922 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
38923 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
38925 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
38926 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
38927 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
38928 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
38929 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
38930 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
38931 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
38932 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
38934 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
38935 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
38936 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
38937 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
38938 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
38939 have it on start-up.
38942 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
38943 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
38944 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
38945 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
38946 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
38947 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
38948 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
38949 configuration to torrc.
38950 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
38951 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
38952 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
38953 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
38954 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
38956 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
38957 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
38958 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
38959 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
38960 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
38961 log more informatively.
38962 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
38963 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
38964 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
38965 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
38966 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
38967 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
38968 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
38969 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
38970 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
38971 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
38972 from each other, to hinder linkability.
38975 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
38976 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
38977 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
38978 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
38979 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
38980 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
38981 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
38983 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
38984 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
38985 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
38986 they ran out of file descriptors.
38987 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
38988 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
38989 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
38990 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
38991 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
38992 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
38993 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
38995 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
38998 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
38999 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
39000 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
39001 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
39002 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
39003 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
39004 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
39005 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
39006 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
39007 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
39008 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
39009 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
39010 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
39011 with the control port.
39012 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
39013 use in authenticating to the control interface.
39014 - New log format in config:
39015 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
39016 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
39019 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
39020 from their dirserver.
39021 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
39023 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
39024 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
39025 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
39026 them act more like real nodes.
39027 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
39028 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
39030 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
39031 nickname to its identity key.
39032 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
39033 not on the command line.
39034 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
39035 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
39036 1024) file descriptors.
39038 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
39039 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
39041 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
39042 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
39043 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
39046 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
39047 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
39048 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
39049 exit policy, not reject *:*.
39050 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
39051 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
39052 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
39053 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
39054 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
39055 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
39056 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
39059 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
39060 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
39061 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
39062 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
39063 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
39064 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
39065 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
39068 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
39069 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39070 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
39071 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
39072 the ones we find in directories.)
39073 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
39075 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
39076 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
39078 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
39079 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
39080 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
39082 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
39083 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
39084 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
39085 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
39087 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
39088 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
39089 any more exit policy lines.
39092 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
39093 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
39094 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
39095 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
39096 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
39097 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
39098 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
39099 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
39100 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
39101 will be able to get a directory.
39102 - Http proxy support
39103 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
39104 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
39105 be routed through this host.
39106 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
39107 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
39108 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
39109 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
39112 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
39114 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
39115 clients/servers with an open dirport.
39116 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39117 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39118 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39119 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39120 intermittent connections.
39121 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
39122 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
39124 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
39125 in reporting stats locally.
39126 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
39127 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
39128 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
39131 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
39133 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
39134 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
39137 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
39139 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
39140 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
39141 if you don't want it open.
39142 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39143 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
39144 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39145 intermittent connections.
39146 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
39148 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
39149 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
39150 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
39151 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
39152 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
39153 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
39154 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
39155 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
39156 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
39157 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
39158 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
39159 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
39160 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
39161 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
39162 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39163 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39166 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
39167 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
39168 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
39169 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
39170 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
39172 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
39174 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
39175 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
39176 specified in HTTP 1.0.
39177 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
39178 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
39179 than once per minute.
39180 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
39181 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
39184 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
39185 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
39188 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
39189 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
39190 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
39191 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
39194 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
39195 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
39197 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
39198 don't put it into the client dns cache.
39199 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
39200 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
39201 until we get our next directory.
39203 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
39204 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
39205 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
39206 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
39207 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
39208 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
39209 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
39210 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
39211 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
39212 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
39213 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
39215 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
39217 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
39218 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
39220 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
39221 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
39222 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
39224 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
39226 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
39227 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
39228 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
39229 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
39230 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
39231 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
39232 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
39233 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
39236 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
39237 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
39238 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
39239 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
39242 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
39243 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
39244 ask them to resolve the host "".
39247 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
39248 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39249 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
39250 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
39251 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
39252 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
39253 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
39254 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
39255 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
39256 clients don't use this yet.)
39257 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
39258 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
39259 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
39260 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
39261 for pointing out this bug.)
39262 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
39263 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
39264 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
39265 kazaa, gnutella ports.
39266 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
39268 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
39269 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
39270 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
39271 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
39272 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
39273 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
39274 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
39275 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
39276 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
39277 wolf unpredictably.
39278 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
39279 that's still handshaking.
39280 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
39281 you'll choose it for your path.
39282 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
39283 end relay cell, etc.
39284 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
39285 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
39286 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
39289 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
39290 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39292 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
39293 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
39294 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
39295 list to decide who's running or verified.
39296 - Bugfixes and features:
39297 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
39298 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
39299 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
39300 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
39301 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
39302 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
39304 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
39305 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
39306 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
39307 know you might want to get it verified.
39308 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
39311 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
39313 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
39314 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
39315 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
39316 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
39318 o Protocol changes:
39319 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
39320 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
39321 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
39322 hadn't heard of before.
39325 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
39326 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
39327 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
39328 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
39329 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
39330 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
39331 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
39332 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
39333 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
39334 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
39335 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
39336 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
39337 - Directory caching.
39338 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
39339 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
39340 directory they've pulled down.
39341 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
39342 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
39343 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
39344 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
39345 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
39346 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
39347 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
39349 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
39350 This isn't used yet.
39351 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
39352 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
39353 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
39354 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
39355 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
39356 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
39357 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
39358 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
39359 - File and name management:
39360 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
39361 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
39363 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
39364 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
39365 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
39366 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
39367 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
39368 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
39369 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
39371 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
39372 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
39373 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
39374 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
39375 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
39377 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
39378 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
39379 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
39380 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
39381 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
39382 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
39383 - New docs in the tarball:
39385 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
39388 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
39389 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
39390 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
39393 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
39394 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
39395 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
39398 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
39399 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
39402 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
39403 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
39404 - Make it build on Win32 again.
39405 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
39406 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
39410 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
39412 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
39413 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
39414 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
39415 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
39416 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
39417 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
39418 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
39419 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
39420 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
39421 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
39424 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
39427 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
39428 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
39429 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
39430 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
39432 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
39433 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
39434 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
39436 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
39437 hidden service per 15-minute period.
39438 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
39439 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
39440 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
39441 o Fixes for security bugs:
39442 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
39443 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
39444 a trusted dirserver.
39446 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
39447 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
39448 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
39449 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
39450 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
39451 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
39452 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
39453 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
39454 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
39455 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
39457 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
39458 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
39459 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
39460 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
39462 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
39463 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
39464 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
39465 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
39466 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
39467 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
39468 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
39469 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
39470 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
39471 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
39472 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
39473 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
39474 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
39477 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
39478 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
39479 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
39480 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39483 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
39484 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
39485 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
39486 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
39487 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
39488 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39489 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
39493 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
39494 [version bump only]
39497 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
39498 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
39499 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
39500 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
39501 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
39503 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
39506 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
39507 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
39508 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
39509 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
39510 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
39511 o Better debugging for tls errors
39512 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
39513 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
39514 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
39515 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
39516 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
39517 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
39518 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
39519 o win32's close can't close a socket.
39522 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
39523 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
39524 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
39525 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
39526 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
39527 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
39528 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
39529 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
39530 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
39531 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
39532 just close the circ.
39533 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
39534 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
39535 (this was quite rare).
39538 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
39539 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
39540 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
39541 if you decrypted them correctly.
39542 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
39543 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
39544 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
39547 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
39548 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
39549 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
39550 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
39551 a second one and it works.
39552 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
39553 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
39554 alice would just have to wait to time out.
39555 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
39556 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
39557 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
39558 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
39559 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
39560 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
39561 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
39562 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
39563 i'd still like to find the bug though.
39564 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
39566 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
39570 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
39571 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
39572 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
39573 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
39574 he retries a couple of times
39575 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
39576 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
39577 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
39578 too long (they were sticking around forever).
39579 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
39583 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
39584 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
39585 - make hup work again
39586 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
39587 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
39588 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
39589 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
39590 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
39591 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
39593 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
39594 o changes from 0.0.5:
39595 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
39596 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
39597 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
39598 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
39599 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
39601 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
39602 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
39603 in-memory directories too
39606 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
39607 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
39610 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
39612 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
39613 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
39614 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
39615 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
39618 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
39619 [version bump only]
39622 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
39623 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
39625 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
39626 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
39627 but that aren't warnings
39630 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
39631 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
39632 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
39633 the dns farm to do it.
39634 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
39635 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
39637 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
39638 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
39639 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
39642 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
39643 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
39644 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
39645 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
39646 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
39647 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
39648 expect it to have a nickname.
39649 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
39650 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
39653 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
39654 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
39658 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
39659 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
39660 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
39661 - include missing header fcntl.h
39662 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
39663 - deal with hardware word alignment
39664 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
39665 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
39666 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
39667 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
39668 by kill -USR1 currently.
39669 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
39670 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
39671 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
39674 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
39675 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
39676 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
39679 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
39681 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
39682 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
39683 - And fix a few endian issues.
39686 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
39688 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
39689 try that circuit again: try a new one.
39690 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
39691 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
39692 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
39693 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
39694 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
39695 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
39697 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
39698 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
39699 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
39701 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
39703 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
39704 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
39705 side isn't reading right then.
39706 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
39707 RecommendedVersions
39708 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
39709 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
39710 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
39713 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
39715 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
39716 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
39719 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
39723 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
39725 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
39726 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
39727 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
39728 connection is finished.
39729 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
39730 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
39731 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
39732 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
39733 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
39734 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
39735 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
39736 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
39737 rather than warn and continue.
39738 - Make --version work
39739 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
39742 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
39744 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
39745 knows it's working.
39746 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
39747 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
39749 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
39750 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
39751 so you can collect coredumps there.
39753 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
39754 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
39755 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
39756 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
39757 dns cache actually gets populated.
39758 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
39759 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
39760 end cell down it first.
39761 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
39762 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
39765 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
39767 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
39768 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
39770 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
39771 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
39772 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
39773 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
39774 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
39775 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
39777 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
39779 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
39780 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
39781 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
39782 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
39783 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
39784 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
39786 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
39787 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
39790 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
39792 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
39793 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
39794 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
39795 tor. It even has a man page.
39796 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
39797 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
39798 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
39799 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
39801 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
39803 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
39806 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
39808 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
39809 it, apt-getters. :)
39810 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
39811 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
39812 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
39813 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
39814 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
39815 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
39816 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
39817 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
39818 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
39819 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
39820 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
39822 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
39823 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
39826 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
39828 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
39829 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
39832 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
39834 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
39835 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
39836 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
39837 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
39838 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
39839 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
39840 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
39841 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
39842 logfile so you know it's working.
39843 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
39844 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
39847 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
39849 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
39850 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
39851 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
39854 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
39856 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
39857 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
39858 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
39861 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
39862 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
39863 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
39865 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
39866 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
39868 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
39869 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
39870 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
39872 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
39873 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
39877 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
39879 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
39880 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
39881 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
39884 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
39885 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
39886 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
39887 - Add port ranges to exit policies
39888 - Add a conservative default exit policy
39889 - Warn if you're running tor as root
39890 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
39891 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
39892 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
39893 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
39895 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
39898 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
39899 o Robustness and bugfixes:
39900 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
39901 really screw things up.
39902 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
39904 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
39905 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
39907 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
39908 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
39909 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
39910 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
39911 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
39912 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
39915 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
39918 - Change default loglevel to warn.
39919 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
39920 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
39922 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
39925 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
39926 o Robustness and bugfixes:
39927 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
39928 - to get ownership/permissions right
39929 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
39930 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
39931 pull down a directory again
39932 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
39933 causing server crashes
39934 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
39935 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
39936 - exit if bind() fails
39937 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
39938 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
39939 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
39940 - fix minor bias in PRNG
39941 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
39944 - Wrote the design document (woo)
39946 o Circuit building and exit policies:
39947 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
39949 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
39950 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
39951 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
39952 exists, rather than failing
39953 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
39954 which AP connections are standing by
39955 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
39956 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
39957 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
39959 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
39960 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
39963 - APPort is now called SocksPort
39964 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
39966 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
39967 hardcoded (for dirservers)
39968 - Reloads config on HUP
39969 - Usage info on -h or --help
39970 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
39973 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
39974 o General stability:
39975 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
39976 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
39977 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
39978 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
39979 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
39980 to take down the network when I approve a new router
39981 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
39984 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
39985 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
39987 o Autoconf improvements:
39988 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
39989 - Make install now works
39990 - create var/lib/tor on make install
39991 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
39992 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
39994 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
39995 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
39996 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
39997 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup