1 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
2 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
3 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
4 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
5 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
6 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
9 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
10 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
11 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
12 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
13 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
14 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
15 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
16 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
18 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
19 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
20 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
22 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
23 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
24 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
25 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
27 o Major security workaround:
28 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
29 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
30 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
31 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
32 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
33 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
34 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
35 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
36 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
37 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
38 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
41 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
42 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
43 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
44 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
45 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
46 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
47 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
48 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
49 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
50 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
51 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
52 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
53 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
55 o Minor features (controller):
56 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
57 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
58 file. Resolves bug 1101.
59 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
60 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
61 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
62 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
63 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
64 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
66 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
67 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
68 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
69 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
71 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
72 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
73 circuit-status' control-port command.
75 o Minor features (directory authorities):
76 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
77 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
78 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
79 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
81 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
82 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
83 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
84 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
85 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
86 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
87 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies.
88 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
89 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
91 o Minor features (other):
92 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
93 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
94 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
95 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
96 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
97 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
98 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
99 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
101 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
102 them from the other auths.
103 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
104 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
105 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
106 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
108 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
110 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
111 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
112 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
113 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
114 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
115 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
116 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
117 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
118 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
119 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
120 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
121 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
122 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
123 be disabled using the new
124 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
125 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
126 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
127 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
128 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
129 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
130 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
131 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
132 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
133 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
134 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
135 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
137 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
138 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
139 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
142 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
143 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
144 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
146 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
147 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
148 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
149 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
150 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
151 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
152 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
154 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
155 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
156 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
157 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
158 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
159 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
160 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
161 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
163 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
164 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
165 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
166 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
167 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
168 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
169 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
170 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
171 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
174 o Minor bugfixes (other):
175 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
176 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
177 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
178 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
179 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
180 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
181 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
182 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
183 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
184 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
185 accidentally been reverted.
186 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
187 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
188 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
189 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
190 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
191 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
192 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
193 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
194 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
195 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
196 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
197 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
198 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
199 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
200 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
201 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
202 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
203 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
204 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
207 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
208 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
209 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
210 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
211 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
212 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
213 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
215 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
216 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
217 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
218 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
219 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
220 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
221 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
223 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
224 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
225 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
226 invalid value, rather than just -1.
227 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
228 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
229 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
230 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
231 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
232 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
233 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
237 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
238 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
239 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
241 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
242 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
243 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
244 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
245 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
246 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
247 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
248 (which Tor does not do by default).
250 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
251 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
252 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
253 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
254 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
256 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
260 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
261 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
262 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
263 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
266 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
267 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
268 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
269 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
270 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
271 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
272 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
273 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
274 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
275 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
276 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
279 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
282 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
283 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
284 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
286 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
287 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
288 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
289 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
290 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
291 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
292 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
293 (which Tor does not do by default).
295 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
296 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
297 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
298 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
299 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
301 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
302 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
303 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
306 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
307 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
308 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
309 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
310 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
312 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
313 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
316 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
317 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
318 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
319 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
320 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
321 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
322 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
323 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
325 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
326 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
327 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
328 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
329 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
330 close based on processing a cell on it.
331 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
332 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
333 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
334 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
335 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
336 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
337 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
338 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
339 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
340 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
341 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
342 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
343 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
344 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
345 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
348 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
349 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
350 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
351 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
352 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
353 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
354 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
356 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
357 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
358 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
359 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
360 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
361 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
362 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
363 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
364 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
365 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
366 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
367 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
368 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
369 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
370 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
371 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
372 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
373 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
374 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
375 Reported by "troll_un".
376 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
377 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
378 Reported by "troll_un".
379 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
380 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
381 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
382 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
385 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
386 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
387 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
388 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
389 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
390 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
391 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
392 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
393 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
394 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
395 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
398 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
399 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
402 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
403 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
404 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
405 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
406 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
407 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
408 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
411 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
412 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
413 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
414 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
415 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
416 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
417 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
418 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
419 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
420 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
421 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
422 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
423 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
424 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
425 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
426 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
427 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
428 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
429 Resolves ticket 4526.
430 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
431 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
432 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
433 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
434 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
435 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
436 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
437 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
438 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
439 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
440 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
441 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
442 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
443 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
444 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
445 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
448 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
449 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
450 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
451 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
452 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
453 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
454 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
455 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
456 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
457 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
459 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
460 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
461 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
462 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
463 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
464 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
465 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
466 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
467 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
469 o Minor features (new/different config options):
470 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
471 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
472 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
473 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
474 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
475 Implements issue 933.
476 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
477 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
478 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
479 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
480 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
481 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
482 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
483 appending to the list.
484 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
485 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
486 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
487 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
489 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
490 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
491 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
492 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
493 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
494 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
495 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
496 to better meet packagers' needs.)
499 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
500 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
501 Resolves ticket 2474.
502 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
503 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
504 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
505 Required by fix for bug 3460.
506 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
507 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
508 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
509 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
510 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
511 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
512 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
513 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
514 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
516 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
517 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
518 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
520 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
522 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
523 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
525 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
526 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
527 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
528 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
529 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
530 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
531 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
533 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
534 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
535 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
536 Reported by "troll_un".
537 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
538 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
539 Reported by "troll_un".
540 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
541 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
542 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
543 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
545 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
546 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
548 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
549 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
550 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
551 with help from wanoskarnet.
552 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
553 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
556 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
557 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
558 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
559 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
561 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
562 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
563 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
564 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
565 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
566 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
567 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
568 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
571 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
572 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
573 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
574 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
575 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
576 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
577 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
578 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
579 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
582 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
583 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
584 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
585 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
587 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
588 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
589 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
590 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
591 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
592 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
593 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
594 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
595 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
596 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
597 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
598 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
599 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
600 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
601 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
602 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
603 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
604 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
605 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
606 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
607 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
608 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
609 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
610 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
613 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
614 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
615 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
616 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
617 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
618 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
619 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
620 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
623 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
624 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
625 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
626 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
627 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
628 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
629 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
630 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
631 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
632 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
633 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
634 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
635 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
636 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
637 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
639 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
640 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
641 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
642 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
643 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
644 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
645 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
646 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
647 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
648 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
649 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
650 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
651 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
652 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
653 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
654 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
655 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
657 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
658 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
659 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
660 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
661 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
663 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
664 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
665 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
667 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
668 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
669 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
671 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
672 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
674 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
675 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
678 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
679 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
680 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
681 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
682 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
683 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
684 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
685 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
686 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
687 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
688 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
689 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
690 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
691 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
693 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
694 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
695 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
698 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
699 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
701 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
702 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
703 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
704 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
705 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
706 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
707 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
708 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
709 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
712 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
714 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
715 ./src/test/bench binary.
716 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
717 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
720 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
721 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
722 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
726 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
727 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
728 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
729 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
730 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
731 close based on processing a cell on it.
732 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
733 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
734 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
735 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
736 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
737 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
738 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
739 cells were introduced.
742 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
743 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
746 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
747 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
748 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
749 users. Everybody should upgrade.
751 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
752 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
755 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
756 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
757 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
758 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
759 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
760 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
762 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
763 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
764 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
765 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
766 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
767 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
768 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
769 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
770 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
771 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
772 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
773 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
774 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
775 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
776 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
777 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
778 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
779 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
782 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
783 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
784 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
785 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
786 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
787 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
788 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
789 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
790 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
791 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
792 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
793 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
794 Partly fixes bug 3825.
795 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
796 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
797 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
798 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
799 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
800 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
801 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
803 o Major bugfixes (other):
804 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
805 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
806 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
807 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
808 Found by "frosty_un".
809 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
810 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
811 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
812 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
813 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
814 immensely in tracking this bug down.
815 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
816 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
819 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
820 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
821 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
822 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
823 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
824 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
825 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
826 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
827 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
828 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
829 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
830 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
831 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
832 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
833 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
834 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
835 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
836 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
837 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
838 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
839 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
841 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
842 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
843 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
844 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
845 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
846 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
847 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
848 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
849 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
850 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
851 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
854 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
855 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
856 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
857 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
858 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
859 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
860 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
861 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
862 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
863 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
864 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
865 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
866 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
867 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
869 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
870 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
871 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
872 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
873 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
874 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
875 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
876 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
879 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
880 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
881 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
883 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
884 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
885 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
886 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
887 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
888 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
889 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
890 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
891 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
892 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
893 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
894 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
895 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
897 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
898 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
899 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
900 currently connected to them.
902 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
903 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
904 remain; see for example proposal 188.
906 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
907 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
908 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
909 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
910 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
911 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
912 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
913 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
914 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
915 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
916 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
917 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
918 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
919 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
920 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
921 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
922 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
923 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
926 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
927 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
928 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
929 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
930 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
931 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
932 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
933 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
934 when bridges were introduced.
935 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
936 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
937 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
938 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
939 Found by "frosty_un".
942 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
943 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
945 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
946 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
947 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
948 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
949 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
950 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
951 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
954 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
955 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
956 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
957 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
958 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
959 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
960 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
961 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
962 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
963 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
964 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
965 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
966 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
967 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
968 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
969 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
970 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
971 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
973 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
974 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
975 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
976 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
977 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
978 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
979 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
980 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
981 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
982 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
983 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
984 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
987 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
988 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
989 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
990 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
993 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
994 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
995 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
996 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
997 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
999 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1000 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
1001 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
1002 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
1003 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
1004 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
1005 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
1006 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
1007 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
1008 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1010 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1011 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
1012 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
1013 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
1014 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
1015 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
1016 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
1017 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
1018 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
1019 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
1020 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
1021 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
1022 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
1023 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
1024 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1025 Found by "frosty_un".
1026 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
1027 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
1028 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
1029 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
1030 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
1031 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
1032 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
1033 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
1034 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1035 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
1036 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
1037 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
1038 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1039 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
1040 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
1041 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
1042 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
1043 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
1044 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
1046 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1047 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
1048 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
1049 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
1050 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
1051 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
1052 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
1053 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
1055 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
1056 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
1057 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
1058 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
1059 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
1060 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
1061 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
1062 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
1063 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
1064 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
1065 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
1066 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
1068 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
1069 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1070 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
1071 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1072 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
1073 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1074 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
1075 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
1076 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
1078 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
1080 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
1081 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
1082 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
1083 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1084 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
1085 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
1086 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
1087 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1089 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
1090 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
1091 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
1092 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
1093 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
1095 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1096 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
1097 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
1098 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
1099 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1102 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
1103 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
1104 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
1105 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
1106 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
1109 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
1110 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
1111 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
1112 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
1113 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
1114 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
1115 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
1116 when bridges were introduced.
1119 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
1120 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
1121 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1123 o Major features (networking):
1124 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
1125 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
1126 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
1127 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
1128 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
1132 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
1133 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
1134 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
1136 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1137 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
1138 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
1139 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
1140 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1142 o Minor features (diagnostics):
1143 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
1144 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
1147 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
1148 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
1149 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
1150 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
1151 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
1152 listed in the network consensus and republish.
1154 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
1155 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
1156 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
1157 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1159 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
1160 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
1161 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
1162 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
1163 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
1164 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
1165 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
1166 that these attacks is infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
1167 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
1168 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
1169 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
1171 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
1172 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
1173 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
1174 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
1175 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
1176 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
1177 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
1178 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
1179 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
1180 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1182 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
1183 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
1184 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
1185 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
1186 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
1187 fixes part of bug 2442.
1188 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
1189 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
1190 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
1192 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
1193 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
1194 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
1195 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
1196 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1198 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
1199 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
1200 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
1201 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
1202 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
1205 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
1206 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
1207 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
1211 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
1212 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
1213 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
1214 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
1215 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
1216 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
1217 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
1220 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
1221 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
1222 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
1223 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
1224 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
1225 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
1226 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
1229 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
1230 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
1231 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
1232 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
1233 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
1234 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
1235 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
1236 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
1237 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1240 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
1241 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
1244 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
1245 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
1246 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
1247 reachable from Iran again.
1250 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
1251 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
1252 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1254 o Minor features (security):
1255 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
1256 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
1257 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
1258 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
1259 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
1260 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
1261 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
1262 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
1263 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
1264 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
1267 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
1268 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
1269 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
1270 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
1271 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
1272 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
1273 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
1274 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
1275 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1277 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
1278 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
1279 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
1280 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
1281 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
1283 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
1284 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
1285 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
1286 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
1287 fixes part of bug 2442.
1288 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
1289 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
1290 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
1292 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
1293 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
1294 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
1295 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
1296 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1299 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
1300 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1301 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
1302 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
1303 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
1304 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
1307 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
1308 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
1309 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
1310 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
1311 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
1312 bufferevent-based networking backend.
1314 o Major features (stream isolation):
1315 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
1316 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
1317 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
1318 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
1319 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
1320 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
1321 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
1322 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
1323 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
1324 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
1325 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
1326 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
1327 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
1328 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
1330 o Major features (other):
1331 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
1332 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
1333 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
1334 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
1335 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
1336 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
1337 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
1338 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
1339 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
1340 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
1341 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
1342 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
1343 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
1345 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
1346 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
1348 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
1349 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
1350 Fixes part of bug 3752.
1351 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
1352 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
1353 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
1354 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
1355 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
1356 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
1357 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
1358 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
1359 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
1360 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
1361 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
1362 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
1363 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
1364 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
1365 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
1366 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
1367 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
1369 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
1370 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
1371 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
1372 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
1373 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
1374 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
1377 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
1378 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
1379 user. Implements ticket 1692.
1380 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
1381 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
1382 best copy data out of a buffer.
1383 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
1384 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
1385 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
1387 o Minor features (build compatibility):
1388 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
1389 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
1390 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1392 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
1393 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1395 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
1396 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
1397 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
1398 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
1399 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
1400 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
1401 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1403 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
1404 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
1405 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
1406 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
1407 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
1409 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
1410 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
1411 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
1414 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
1415 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
1416 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
1417 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
1418 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
1419 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
1420 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
1421 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
1422 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
1423 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
1424 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
1425 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1426 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
1427 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
1428 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
1429 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
1430 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
1431 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
1432 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
1435 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1436 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
1437 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
1441 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
1442 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
1443 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
1444 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
1445 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
1446 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
1449 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
1450 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
1451 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
1452 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
1453 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
1454 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
1455 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
1456 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
1457 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
1458 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
1460 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
1461 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
1462 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
1463 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
1464 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
1465 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
1466 many many other features and bugfixes.
1469 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
1470 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
1471 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
1474 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
1475 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
1476 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
1477 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
1478 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
1479 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
1480 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
1481 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
1484 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1487 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
1488 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
1489 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1490 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
1491 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
1492 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
1493 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
1494 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
1495 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
1496 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
1497 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
1498 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
1499 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
1500 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1501 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
1502 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
1503 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
1504 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
1508 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
1509 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
1510 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
1511 up a variety of recently introduced features.
1514 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
1515 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
1516 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
1517 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
1518 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
1519 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
1520 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
1521 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
1522 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
1523 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
1524 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
1525 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
1526 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
1527 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
1528 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
1529 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
1531 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
1532 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
1533 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
1534 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
1535 order. Fixes bug 2798.
1536 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
1537 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
1538 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
1539 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
1540 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
1541 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
1545 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
1546 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
1547 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
1548 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
1550 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
1551 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
1552 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
1553 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
1554 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
1555 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
1556 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
1557 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
1558 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
1559 Implements ticket 3264.
1560 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
1561 implements ticket 3439.
1563 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
1564 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
1565 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
1566 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
1567 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
1568 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
1569 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
1570 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
1571 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
1572 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
1573 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
1574 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
1575 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
1576 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
1577 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
1578 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
1579 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
1580 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
1581 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
1582 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
1583 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
1584 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
1585 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
1586 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
1587 fails. Spotted by coverity.
1588 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
1589 present. Found by coverity.
1590 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
1591 a directory cache that provides them.
1593 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1594 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
1595 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
1596 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
1597 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
1598 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
1600 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
1601 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
1602 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1603 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
1604 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
1605 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1606 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
1607 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
1609 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1610 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
1611 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
1612 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
1613 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
1614 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
1615 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
1617 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
1621 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
1622 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
1623 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
1626 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
1627 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
1628 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
1629 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
1632 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
1633 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
1634 discovered by katmagic.
1635 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
1636 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
1637 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
1638 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1639 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
1640 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
1641 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
1642 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1643 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
1644 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
1645 fixes part of bug 3465.
1646 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
1647 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
1651 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1654 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
1655 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
1656 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
1657 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
1658 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
1661 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
1662 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
1663 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
1664 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
1665 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
1668 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
1669 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
1670 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
1671 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
1672 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
1673 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
1676 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
1677 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
1678 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
1679 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1680 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
1681 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
1682 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
1683 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
1684 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
1685 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
1686 fixes part of bug 3407.
1687 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
1688 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
1689 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
1690 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
1691 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
1692 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
1693 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
1694 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
1695 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
1696 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
1698 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
1699 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
1700 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
1701 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
1704 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1706 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1707 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
1708 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
1710 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
1712 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
1715 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
1716 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
1717 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
1718 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
1719 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
1720 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
1724 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
1725 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
1726 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
1727 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
1728 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
1729 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
1730 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
1732 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
1733 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1734 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
1735 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
1736 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
1737 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
1738 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
1739 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
1740 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
1741 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
1742 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
1743 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
1744 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
1745 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
1746 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
1747 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
1748 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
1749 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
1750 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
1754 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
1755 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
1756 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
1757 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
1758 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
1759 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
1760 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
1761 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
1762 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
1766 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
1767 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
1768 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
1770 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
1772 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
1773 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
1774 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
1775 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
1776 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1777 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
1778 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
1779 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
1780 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
1782 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
1783 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
1784 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
1785 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
1786 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
1787 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
1789 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
1790 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
1792 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
1793 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
1794 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1797 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
1798 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
1799 Resolves ticket 3252.
1800 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
1801 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
1802 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
1803 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
1804 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
1805 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
1808 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
1809 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
1812 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
1813 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
1814 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
1817 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
1818 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1819 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
1820 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
1821 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
1824 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
1825 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1826 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
1827 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
1828 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
1829 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
1830 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
1831 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
1832 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
1836 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
1837 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
1838 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
1839 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
1840 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
1842 o Security/privacy fixes:
1843 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
1844 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
1845 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
1846 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
1847 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
1848 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
1849 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
1850 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
1851 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
1852 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
1853 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
1854 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
1855 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
1856 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
1857 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1860 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
1861 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
1862 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
1863 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
1864 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
1865 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
1866 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
1867 part of ticket 3076.
1868 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
1869 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
1870 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
1874 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
1875 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
1876 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
1877 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
1878 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
1879 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
1880 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
1881 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
1883 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
1884 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
1885 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
1886 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
1887 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
1888 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
1889 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
1890 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
1891 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
1892 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
1893 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
1894 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
1895 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1898 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
1899 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
1900 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
1901 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
1902 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
1903 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
1904 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
1906 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
1907 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
1908 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
1909 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
1910 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
1911 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
1912 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
1913 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
1914 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
1915 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
1916 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
1917 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
1918 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
1919 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
1920 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
1921 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
1923 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
1924 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
1926 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
1927 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
1929 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
1930 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
1932 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
1933 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
1934 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1936 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
1937 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
1938 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
1939 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
1940 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1941 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
1942 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
1943 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
1944 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
1945 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
1946 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
1948 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
1949 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
1950 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
1951 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
1952 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
1953 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
1954 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
1955 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
1956 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
1957 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
1958 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1959 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
1960 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
1964 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
1965 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
1966 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
1970 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
1971 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
1972 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
1973 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
1974 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
1975 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
1977 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
1978 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
1979 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
1982 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
1983 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
1984 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
1985 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
1986 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
1987 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
1988 zero-copy transports where available.
1989 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
1990 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
1991 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
1992 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
1993 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
1994 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
1995 debug it as it breaks.
1996 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
1997 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
1998 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
1999 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
2000 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
2001 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
2002 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
2003 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
2004 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
2005 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
2006 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
2007 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
2008 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
2009 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
2010 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
2011 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
2012 PortForwarding option.
2013 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
2014 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
2015 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
2016 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
2017 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
2018 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
2019 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
2022 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
2023 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
2024 Implements enhancement 1668.
2025 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
2027 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
2028 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
2029 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
2030 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
2031 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
2032 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
2033 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
2035 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
2036 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
2037 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
2038 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
2039 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
2040 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
2041 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
2043 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
2044 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
2045 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
2046 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
2047 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
2048 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
2049 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
2051 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
2052 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
2053 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
2054 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
2055 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2056 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
2057 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
2058 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
2059 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
2060 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
2061 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
2062 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
2063 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
2064 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
2065 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
2068 o Minor features (controller):
2069 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
2070 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
2071 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
2072 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
2073 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
2074 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
2075 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
2078 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
2079 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
2080 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
2081 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
2082 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
2083 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
2084 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
2085 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
2087 o Minor packaging issues:
2088 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
2089 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
2091 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2092 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
2093 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
2094 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
2095 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
2096 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
2097 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
2098 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
2099 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
2100 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
2101 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
2102 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
2103 our library structure used to force them to link it.
2106 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
2107 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
2108 are no longer in use as servers.
2110 o Documentation fixes:
2111 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
2112 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
2113 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
2117 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
2118 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
2119 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
2120 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
2121 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
2122 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
2123 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
2124 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
2125 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
2126 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
2129 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
2130 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
2131 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
2132 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
2133 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
2134 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
2135 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
2136 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
2137 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
2138 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2139 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
2140 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
2141 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2142 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
2143 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
2144 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
2146 o Security and stability fixes:
2147 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
2148 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
2149 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
2150 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
2151 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
2152 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
2153 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
2154 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
2155 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
2156 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
2157 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
2158 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
2159 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2160 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
2161 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
2162 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2165 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
2166 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
2167 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
2168 contributions to the network.
2170 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
2171 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
2172 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
2173 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
2174 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
2175 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
2176 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
2177 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
2178 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
2179 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
2180 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
2181 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
2182 connections to directory servers.
2183 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
2184 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
2185 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
2186 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
2187 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
2188 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
2189 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
2190 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
2191 information, or fetch directory information.
2192 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
2193 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
2194 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
2195 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
2196 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
2197 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
2198 unless you really want your Tor to break.
2199 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
2200 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
2201 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
2202 - When StrictNodes is 1:
2203 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
2204 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
2205 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
2206 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
2207 reachability self-tests.
2208 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
2209 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
2210 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
2211 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
2212 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2213 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
2214 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
2216 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
2217 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2218 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
2219 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
2220 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
2221 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2222 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
2223 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
2224 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
2225 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
2226 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
2229 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
2230 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
2231 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
2232 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
2233 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
2234 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
2235 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
2236 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
2237 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
2238 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
2239 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
2240 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2241 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
2242 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
2243 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
2244 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
2245 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
2247 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
2248 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
2249 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
2250 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
2251 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2252 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
2253 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2254 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
2255 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2256 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
2257 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
2258 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
2259 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
2260 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
2261 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
2262 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2263 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
2264 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
2265 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
2266 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
2269 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
2270 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
2271 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
2272 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
2273 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
2274 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
2275 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
2276 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
2277 Required by fix for bug 3000.
2278 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
2279 by fix for bug 3000.
2280 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
2281 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
2283 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2284 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
2285 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
2286 send a body too). Since only server versions before
2287 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
2288 keep the workaround in place.
2289 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
2290 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
2291 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
2292 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
2293 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
2294 want to do it differently.
2295 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
2296 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
2297 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
2298 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
2299 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
2303 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
2304 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
2305 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
2306 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
2307 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
2310 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
2311 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
2312 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
2313 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
2314 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
2316 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
2317 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
2318 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
2319 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
2320 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
2321 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
2322 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
2323 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
2324 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
2325 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
2326 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
2327 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
2330 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
2331 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
2332 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
2333 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
2334 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
2335 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
2336 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
2338 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
2339 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
2340 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
2341 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
2342 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
2343 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
2344 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
2345 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
2346 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
2347 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
2348 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
2349 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
2350 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
2351 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
2352 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
2353 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
2354 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
2355 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
2356 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
2357 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
2358 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
2359 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
2360 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2363 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
2365 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
2366 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
2367 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
2369 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
2370 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
2371 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
2372 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
2374 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
2375 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
2376 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
2377 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2380 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
2381 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
2383 o Documentation changes:
2384 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
2385 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
2387 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
2390 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
2391 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
2392 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
2393 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
2394 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
2395 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
2398 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
2399 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
2400 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
2401 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
2402 the rest of bug 1074.
2403 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
2404 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
2405 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2406 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
2407 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
2408 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
2409 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2410 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
2411 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
2412 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
2413 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
2414 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
2415 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
2416 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2419 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
2420 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
2421 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
2422 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
2423 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
2424 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
2425 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
2426 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
2427 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
2428 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
2429 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
2430 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
2431 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
2432 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
2434 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
2435 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
2436 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
2437 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
2438 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
2439 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
2441 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
2442 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
2443 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
2444 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
2445 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
2446 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
2447 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
2448 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
2449 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
2451 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
2452 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
2453 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
2454 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
2455 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
2456 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
2457 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
2458 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
2459 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
2460 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
2461 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
2462 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
2463 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
2464 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2465 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
2466 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
2468 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
2469 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
2470 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
2471 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
2472 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
2473 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
2475 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
2476 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
2477 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
2479 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
2480 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
2481 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
2482 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
2483 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
2484 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
2485 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
2487 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
2488 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
2489 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
2490 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
2491 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
2495 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
2496 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
2497 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
2498 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
2499 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
2500 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
2501 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
2502 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
2503 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
2504 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
2505 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
2506 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
2508 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2510 o Minor features (log subsystem):
2511 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
2512 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
2513 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
2515 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
2516 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
2518 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
2519 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
2520 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
2523 o Packaging changes:
2524 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
2525 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
2526 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
2529 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
2530 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
2531 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
2532 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
2533 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
2534 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
2537 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
2538 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
2539 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
2540 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
2541 the rest of bug 1074.
2542 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
2543 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2545 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
2546 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
2547 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
2548 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
2549 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
2550 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
2551 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2554 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
2556 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2559 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
2560 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
2561 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
2562 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
2563 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
2564 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
2565 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
2566 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
2567 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
2568 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
2569 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2571 o Packaging changes:
2572 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
2573 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
2574 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
2575 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
2576 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
2577 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
2580 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
2581 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
2582 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
2583 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
2584 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
2585 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
2588 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
2589 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2591 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
2592 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
2593 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
2594 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
2597 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
2599 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
2600 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
2601 Implements ticket 2432.
2604 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
2605 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
2606 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
2609 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
2610 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
2611 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
2612 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
2613 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
2614 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
2616 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
2617 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
2618 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
2619 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
2621 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
2622 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
2623 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
2624 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
2625 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
2626 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
2627 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
2628 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
2630 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
2631 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
2632 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
2633 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
2634 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
2635 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
2636 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
2637 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
2638 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
2639 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
2640 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
2641 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
2642 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
2643 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
2646 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
2647 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
2648 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
2649 bug reported by doorss.
2650 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
2651 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
2652 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2653 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
2654 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
2656 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
2657 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
2658 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
2659 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
2660 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2662 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
2663 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2664 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
2666 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
2667 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
2668 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
2669 Automake 1.7 or later.
2670 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
2671 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
2672 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
2673 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
2675 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
2676 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
2677 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
2680 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
2681 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
2682 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
2683 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
2685 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
2686 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
2687 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
2688 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
2689 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
2690 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
2691 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
2692 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
2693 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
2695 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
2696 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
2697 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
2700 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
2701 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
2702 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
2703 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
2704 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
2705 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
2706 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
2707 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
2708 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
2709 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
2710 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
2711 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
2712 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
2714 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
2715 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
2719 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
2720 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
2721 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
2722 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
2723 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
2725 o Major bugfixes (security):
2726 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
2727 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
2728 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
2730 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
2731 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
2732 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
2733 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
2734 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
2735 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
2736 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
2737 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
2739 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2740 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
2741 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
2742 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
2743 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
2744 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
2745 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
2746 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
2747 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
2748 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
2749 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
2750 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
2751 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
2752 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
2755 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2756 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
2757 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
2758 bug reported by doorss.
2759 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
2760 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
2761 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2762 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
2763 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
2765 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
2766 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
2767 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
2768 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
2769 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2770 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
2771 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
2772 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
2773 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
2776 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2777 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
2780 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
2781 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
2782 Automake 1.7 or later.
2785 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
2786 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
2787 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
2788 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
2789 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
2792 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
2793 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
2794 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
2795 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
2796 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
2797 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
2798 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
2799 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
2800 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
2801 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
2802 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
2804 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
2805 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
2806 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
2807 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
2809 o Directory authority changes:
2810 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
2813 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
2814 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
2815 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
2816 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
2817 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
2818 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2819 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
2820 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
2821 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
2824 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2825 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
2826 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
2827 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
2828 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
2829 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
2830 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
2831 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
2832 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
2833 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
2837 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
2838 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
2839 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
2840 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
2844 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
2845 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
2846 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
2847 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
2849 o Directory authority changes:
2850 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
2853 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2856 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
2857 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
2858 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
2859 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
2860 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
2863 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
2864 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
2865 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
2866 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
2867 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2868 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
2869 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
2870 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
2871 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
2872 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2873 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
2874 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
2875 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
2876 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
2877 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
2878 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
2879 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
2880 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
2881 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
2882 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
2883 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
2884 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
2885 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
2888 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
2889 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
2890 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
2891 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
2893 o New directory authorities:
2894 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
2898 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
2899 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
2900 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
2902 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
2903 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
2904 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
2905 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
2906 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
2907 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
2909 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
2910 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
2911 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
2914 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
2915 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
2916 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
2917 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
2918 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
2919 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
2920 Patch from mingw-san.
2923 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
2924 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
2925 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
2926 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
2927 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
2928 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
2931 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
2932 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
2933 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
2936 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
2937 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
2938 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
2939 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
2940 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2943 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
2944 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
2945 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
2946 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
2947 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
2948 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
2949 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
2950 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
2951 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
2954 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
2955 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
2956 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
2957 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
2958 to a stable release.
2961 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
2962 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
2963 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
2964 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
2965 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
2966 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
2967 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
2968 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
2969 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2970 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
2971 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
2972 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
2973 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
2974 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
2975 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
2976 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
2977 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
2978 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
2979 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
2980 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
2981 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
2982 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
2983 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
2984 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
2985 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2986 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
2987 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
2988 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
2989 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
2990 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
2991 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
2994 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
2995 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
2996 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
2997 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
2998 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
2999 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
3000 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
3001 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
3002 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
3003 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
3004 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
3005 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
3006 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
3007 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3008 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
3009 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
3010 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
3012 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
3013 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
3014 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
3015 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
3016 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
3018 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
3019 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
3020 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
3021 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
3024 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
3025 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
3026 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
3027 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
3028 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
3029 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
3030 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
3031 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3033 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3034 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
3035 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
3036 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
3037 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
3038 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
3039 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
3040 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
3041 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
3042 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
3043 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
3044 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
3045 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
3046 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
3047 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
3050 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
3051 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
3052 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
3053 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
3054 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
3055 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
3056 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
3057 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
3058 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
3061 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
3062 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
3063 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
3064 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
3065 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
3067 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
3068 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
3069 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
3070 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
3071 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
3072 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
3073 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3074 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
3075 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
3076 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
3077 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
3078 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
3079 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
3080 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
3082 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
3083 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
3085 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
3086 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
3087 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
3088 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
3089 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
3090 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
3091 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
3092 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
3093 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
3094 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
3095 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
3096 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
3097 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
3098 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
3099 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
3100 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
3101 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
3102 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3104 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
3105 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
3106 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
3107 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
3108 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
3109 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
3110 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
3111 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
3112 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
3113 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
3114 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
3115 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
3116 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
3118 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
3119 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
3120 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
3121 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3124 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
3125 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
3126 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
3127 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
3128 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
3129 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
3130 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
3131 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
3132 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
3133 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
3134 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
3135 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
3136 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
3137 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
3138 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
3139 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
3140 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
3141 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
3142 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
3145 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
3146 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
3147 based on the time during which we were active and not in
3148 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
3149 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
3150 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
3151 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
3152 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3154 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
3155 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
3156 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
3157 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
3158 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
3159 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
3160 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
3161 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
3162 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
3163 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
3166 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
3167 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
3168 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
3169 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
3171 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
3172 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
3173 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
3174 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
3175 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
3176 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
3177 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
3178 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
3179 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
3180 the longest-lived bug prize.
3181 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
3182 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
3183 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
3184 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
3185 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
3186 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
3188 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
3189 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
3190 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
3191 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
3192 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
3193 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
3197 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3198 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
3199 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
3200 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
3201 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
3202 got suppressed since the last warning.
3203 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
3204 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
3205 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
3206 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
3207 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
3208 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
3209 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
3210 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
3211 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
3212 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
3213 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
3214 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
3215 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
3216 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
3217 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
3218 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
3219 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
3220 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
3221 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
3223 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
3224 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
3225 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
3227 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
3228 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
3229 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
3230 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
3231 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
3232 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
3233 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
3234 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
3235 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
3236 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
3237 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
3238 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
3239 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
3240 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
3241 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
3243 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
3244 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
3245 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
3246 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
3247 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
3248 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3249 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
3251 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
3252 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
3253 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
3254 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
3255 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
3258 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
3259 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
3260 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
3261 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
3262 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
3263 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
3264 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
3265 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
3266 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
3267 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
3268 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
3269 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
3270 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
3271 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
3272 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
3273 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
3274 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
3275 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
3278 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
3281 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
3282 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
3283 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
3284 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
3285 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
3289 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
3290 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
3291 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
3292 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
3293 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
3294 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
3295 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
3296 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
3297 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
3298 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
3299 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
3300 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
3301 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
3302 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
3303 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
3304 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
3305 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
3308 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
3309 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
3310 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
3311 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
3312 they first get the Guard flag.
3313 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
3317 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3318 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
3319 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
3320 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
3321 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
3322 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
3323 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
3324 Patch from mingw-san.
3325 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
3326 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
3328 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
3329 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
3330 Implements enhancement 1790.
3332 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
3333 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
3334 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
3335 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
3336 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
3337 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
3338 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
3339 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
3340 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
3341 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
3342 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
3343 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
3344 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
3345 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
3346 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
3347 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
3348 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
3349 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
3350 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
3351 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
3353 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
3354 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
3355 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
3356 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
3357 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
3358 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
3359 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
3360 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
3361 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
3362 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
3363 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
3364 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
3365 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
3367 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
3368 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
3369 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
3370 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
3371 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
3372 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3374 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
3375 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
3376 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
3377 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
3378 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
3379 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
3380 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
3381 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3382 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
3383 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
3384 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
3385 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
3387 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
3388 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
3389 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
3390 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
3391 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
3392 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
3393 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
3395 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
3397 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
3398 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
3399 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
3400 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
3401 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
3402 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
3404 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3405 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
3406 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
3407 structures and defines in or.h for now.
3408 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
3409 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
3410 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
3411 statistics code to be more easily tested.
3412 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
3413 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
3414 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
3417 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
3418 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
3419 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
3420 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
3421 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
3422 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
3426 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
3427 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
3428 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
3429 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
3430 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
3431 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
3432 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
3433 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
3434 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
3435 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
3436 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
3437 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
3438 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
3440 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
3441 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
3442 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
3443 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
3444 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
3445 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
3446 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
3447 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
3448 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
3449 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
3450 can be controlled by the consensus.
3453 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
3454 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
3455 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
3456 more accurate data for many African countries.
3457 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
3458 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
3459 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
3460 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
3461 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
3462 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
3463 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
3464 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
3465 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
3466 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
3467 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
3468 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
3470 o New directory authorities:
3471 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
3475 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
3476 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
3477 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
3478 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
3479 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
3480 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
3481 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
3482 what should go in a patch.
3483 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
3484 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
3485 over our stored history.
3486 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
3487 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
3488 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
3489 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
3490 file. Fixes bug 1296.
3491 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
3492 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
3493 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
3497 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
3499 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
3500 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
3501 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
3502 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
3503 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
3504 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
3505 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
3506 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
3507 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
3508 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
3509 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
3510 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3511 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
3512 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
3513 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
3514 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
3515 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
3516 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
3517 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
3518 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
3519 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
3520 two-hop circuits are actually created.
3521 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
3522 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3523 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
3524 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3527 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
3528 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
3529 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
3530 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
3531 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
3533 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
3534 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
3537 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
3538 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
3539 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
3540 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
3541 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
3542 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
3543 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
3544 their directory fetches over TLS).
3545 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
3546 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
3547 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
3548 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
3549 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
3550 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
3551 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
3552 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
3555 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
3556 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
3560 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
3561 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3562 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
3563 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
3564 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
3565 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
3566 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3569 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
3570 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
3571 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
3572 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
3573 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
3576 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
3577 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
3578 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
3579 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
3580 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
3581 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
3582 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
3583 their directory fetches over TLS).
3586 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
3587 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
3589 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
3590 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
3591 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
3592 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
3593 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
3594 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
3595 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
3596 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
3597 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
3598 hour of their uptime.
3601 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
3602 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
3603 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
3607 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
3608 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
3609 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
3610 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
3611 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
3612 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
3614 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
3615 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
3616 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
3618 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
3619 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
3623 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
3624 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
3625 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
3629 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
3630 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
3631 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
3634 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
3635 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
3636 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
3637 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
3638 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
3639 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
3640 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
3641 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
3642 about the option without breaking older ones.
3643 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
3644 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
3645 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
3646 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
3649 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
3650 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
3651 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
3652 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
3654 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
3655 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
3656 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
3659 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
3660 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
3662 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
3663 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
3664 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
3665 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
3666 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
3667 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
3668 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3669 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
3670 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
3671 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
3672 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
3675 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
3676 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3677 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
3678 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
3679 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
3680 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
3681 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3684 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
3685 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
3686 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
3687 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
3688 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
3689 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
3692 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
3693 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
3694 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
3695 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
3697 o Major features (performance):
3698 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
3699 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
3700 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
3701 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
3702 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
3703 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
3704 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
3706 o Minor features (performance):
3707 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
3708 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
3709 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
3710 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
3711 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
3715 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
3716 speeds up the build considerably.
3718 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
3719 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
3720 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3721 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
3722 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3723 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
3724 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
3725 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3727 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
3728 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
3729 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
3731 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
3732 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
3733 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
3734 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
3736 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3737 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
3738 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
3739 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
3740 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
3741 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
3744 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
3745 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
3746 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
3748 o Directory authority changes:
3749 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
3750 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
3751 service directory authority) from the list.
3754 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
3755 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
3756 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
3757 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
3758 libraries in a security patch.
3759 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
3760 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
3761 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
3762 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
3764 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
3765 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
3766 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
3767 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
3768 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
3769 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
3770 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
3773 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
3774 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
3775 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
3776 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
3777 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
3778 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
3779 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
3780 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
3781 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
3782 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
3783 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
3784 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
3785 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
3787 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
3788 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
3789 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
3790 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
3791 control-spec.txt said they were.
3792 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
3793 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
3794 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
3795 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
3796 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3798 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3799 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
3800 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
3802 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
3803 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
3804 iPhone SDK versions.
3805 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
3806 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
3807 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
3808 projects directory in svn.
3809 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
3810 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
3811 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
3815 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
3816 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
3817 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
3819 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
3820 to the circuit build timeout.
3821 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
3822 arguments we do not recognize.
3823 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
3824 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
3825 open() without checking it.
3828 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
3829 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
3830 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
3831 several minor potential security bugs.
3834 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
3835 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
3836 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
3837 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
3838 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
3839 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
3840 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
3843 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
3844 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
3846 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
3847 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
3848 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
3849 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
3853 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
3854 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
3858 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
3859 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
3860 customized patches to run/build.
3863 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
3864 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
3865 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
3868 o Major bugfixes (performance):
3869 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
3870 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
3871 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
3872 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
3873 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
3874 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
3875 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
3878 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
3879 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
3880 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
3881 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
3882 libraries in a security patch.
3883 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
3884 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
3885 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
3886 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
3889 o Directory authority changes:
3890 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
3891 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
3892 service directory authority) from the list.
3895 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
3896 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
3899 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
3900 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
3901 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
3902 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
3903 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
3906 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
3907 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
3908 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
3912 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
3913 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
3914 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
3915 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
3916 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3919 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
3920 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
3921 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
3925 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
3926 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
3927 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
3928 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
3929 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
3931 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
3932 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
3934 o Directory authority changes:
3935 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
3938 o Major features (performance):
3939 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
3940 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
3941 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
3942 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
3943 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
3944 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
3945 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
3946 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
3947 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
3948 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
3949 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
3950 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
3951 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
3953 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
3954 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
3955 but never per-conn write limits.
3956 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
3957 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
3958 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
3959 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
3961 o Major features (relay selection options):
3962 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
3963 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
3964 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
3965 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
3966 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
3967 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
3968 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
3970 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
3971 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
3973 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
3974 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
3975 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
3976 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
3977 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
3978 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
3979 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
3980 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
3981 the network changes.
3984 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
3985 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
3986 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3989 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
3990 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
3991 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
3992 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
3993 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
3994 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
3995 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
3996 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
3997 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
3998 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
3999 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
4000 generated while acting as a relay.
4001 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
4002 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
4003 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
4004 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
4005 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
4006 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
4008 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
4009 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
4010 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4011 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
4012 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
4013 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
4016 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
4017 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
4018 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
4020 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
4021 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
4022 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
4024 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
4025 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
4027 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
4028 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
4029 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
4031 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
4032 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
4035 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4036 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
4037 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
4038 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
4039 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
4040 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
4041 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
4042 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
4043 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
4045 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
4049 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
4050 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
4051 hidden service usage.
4054 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
4055 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
4056 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
4057 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
4058 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
4060 o Directory authority changes:
4061 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
4065 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
4066 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
4067 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4070 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
4071 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
4072 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
4073 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
4074 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
4077 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
4078 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
4079 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
4080 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
4081 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
4082 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
4083 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
4086 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
4087 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
4088 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4089 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
4090 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
4091 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
4093 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
4094 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
4097 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
4098 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
4099 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
4100 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
4101 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
4102 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
4105 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
4106 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
4107 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
4109 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
4110 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
4111 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
4112 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
4113 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
4114 download consensus + microdescriptors".
4115 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
4116 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
4117 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
4118 hash algorithm in the future.
4119 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
4120 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
4121 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
4122 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
4123 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
4124 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
4125 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
4126 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
4127 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
4130 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
4131 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
4132 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
4133 won't work unless we say we are.
4136 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
4137 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
4138 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
4139 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
4140 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
4141 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
4142 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
4143 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
4144 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4145 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
4146 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
4147 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
4148 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
4149 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
4150 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
4151 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
4152 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
4153 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
4154 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
4155 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
4156 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
4157 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
4160 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
4161 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
4162 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
4163 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
4165 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
4166 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
4168 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
4169 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
4170 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
4171 in the Vidalia Settings window.
4174 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
4175 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
4176 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
4177 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
4178 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
4180 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
4181 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
4183 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
4184 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
4185 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
4188 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
4189 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
4190 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
4192 o New directory authorities:
4193 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
4195 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
4198 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
4199 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
4201 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
4202 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
4203 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4204 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
4205 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
4206 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
4207 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4208 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
4209 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
4210 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
4211 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
4212 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
4213 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
4214 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
4215 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
4216 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
4217 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
4219 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
4220 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
4221 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
4223 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
4224 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
4228 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
4229 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
4230 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
4231 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
4232 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
4235 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
4236 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4239 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4241 o Directory authorities:
4242 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
4246 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
4247 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
4248 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
4249 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
4250 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
4253 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
4254 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
4255 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
4256 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
4258 o New directory authorities:
4259 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
4262 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
4263 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
4264 SSL handshake issues.
4265 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
4266 during the TLS handshake.
4267 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
4268 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
4269 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
4270 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
4271 none of which are very big.
4274 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
4276 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
4277 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4278 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
4279 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
4280 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4281 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
4282 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
4283 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
4286 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4287 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
4288 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
4289 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
4290 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
4293 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
4294 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4297 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
4298 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
4301 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
4302 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
4303 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4306 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
4307 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
4308 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
4309 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
4310 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
4311 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
4314 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
4315 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
4316 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
4317 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
4318 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
4319 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
4320 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
4321 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
4322 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
4323 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
4324 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
4325 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
4326 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
4327 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
4328 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
4329 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
4330 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
4331 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
4334 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
4335 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
4339 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
4340 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
4341 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4342 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
4343 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
4344 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
4345 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4346 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
4347 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
4348 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
4349 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4350 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
4351 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
4352 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
4353 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
4354 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
4355 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
4356 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
4357 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
4358 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
4359 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
4361 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
4362 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
4363 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
4364 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4365 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
4366 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
4368 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
4369 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
4370 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
4373 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
4374 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
4375 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
4376 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
4377 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
4378 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
4381 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
4382 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
4383 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
4384 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
4385 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
4388 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
4389 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
4390 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
4393 o New directory authorities:
4394 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
4398 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
4399 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
4400 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
4401 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
4402 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
4405 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
4406 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
4407 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
4408 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
4409 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
4412 o New options for gathering stats safely:
4413 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
4414 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
4415 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
4416 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
4417 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
4418 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
4419 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
4420 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
4421 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
4423 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
4424 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
4425 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
4426 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
4428 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
4429 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
4430 their extra-info documents.
4433 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
4434 source files Tor was built with.
4435 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
4436 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
4437 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
4438 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
4439 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
4440 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
4442 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
4443 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
4444 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
4445 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
4446 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
4448 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
4449 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
4452 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
4453 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
4454 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
4455 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
4456 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
4458 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
4459 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
4461 o Deprecated and removed features:
4462 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
4463 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
4464 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
4465 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
4466 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
4467 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
4468 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
4469 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
4471 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
4472 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
4473 via application-level web tricks.
4475 o Packaging changes:
4476 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
4477 installer bundles. See
4478 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
4479 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
4480 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
4481 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
4482 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
4483 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
4484 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
4485 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
4486 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
4487 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
4488 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
4489 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
4492 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
4493 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
4494 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
4497 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
4498 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
4499 part of patch provided by "optimist".
4502 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
4503 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
4504 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
4505 and confuse fewer users.
4508 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
4509 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
4510 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
4511 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
4512 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
4513 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
4514 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
4517 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
4518 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
4519 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
4520 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
4521 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
4522 other features and bug fixes.
4525 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
4528 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
4529 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
4530 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
4531 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
4532 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
4535 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
4536 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
4537 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
4538 failure message (oops).
4541 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
4542 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
4543 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
4544 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
4548 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
4549 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
4550 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
4551 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
4552 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
4553 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
4554 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
4555 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
4556 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
4557 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
4558 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
4559 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
4560 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
4561 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
4562 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
4565 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
4566 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
4567 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
4568 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
4569 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
4570 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
4571 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
4572 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
4573 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
4574 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
4575 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
4576 Workaround for bug 1024.
4577 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
4581 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
4582 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
4583 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
4586 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
4588 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
4589 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
4590 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
4591 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
4592 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
4595 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
4596 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
4597 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
4598 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
4599 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
4600 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
4601 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
4602 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
4603 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
4604 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
4607 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
4608 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
4609 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
4610 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
4611 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
4612 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
4613 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
4614 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
4617 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
4618 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
4619 a bunch of minor bugs.
4622 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
4623 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
4624 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
4626 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
4627 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
4628 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
4629 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
4631 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
4635 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
4636 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
4637 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
4639 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
4640 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
4642 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
4643 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
4645 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
4646 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
4647 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
4648 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
4649 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
4650 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
4651 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
4652 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
4654 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
4655 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
4656 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
4658 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
4659 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
4660 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
4661 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
4662 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
4666 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
4667 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
4668 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
4671 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
4672 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
4673 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
4674 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
4676 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
4677 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
4678 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
4679 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4680 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
4681 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
4682 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
4683 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
4684 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
4685 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
4686 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
4687 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4688 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
4689 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
4690 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
4691 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
4692 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
4694 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
4695 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
4696 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
4697 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4699 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
4700 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
4701 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
4704 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
4705 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
4706 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
4707 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
4708 addresses to fall out of the directory.
4711 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
4712 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
4713 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
4714 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
4716 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
4717 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
4718 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
4719 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
4720 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
4721 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
4722 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
4723 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
4724 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
4725 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
4726 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
4727 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
4728 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
4730 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
4731 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
4734 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
4735 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
4736 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
4737 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
4738 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
4739 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
4741 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
4742 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
4743 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
4744 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
4745 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
4747 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
4750 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
4751 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
4753 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
4754 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
4755 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4756 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4757 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
4758 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
4760 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
4761 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4762 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
4763 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
4764 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
4765 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4766 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
4767 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
4768 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
4769 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
4770 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
4771 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
4775 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
4776 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
4777 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
4780 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
4781 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
4782 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4784 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
4785 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
4786 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
4787 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
4788 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
4789 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
4790 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
4791 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
4792 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
4793 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
4794 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
4795 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4796 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
4797 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
4798 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4799 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
4800 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
4801 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
4802 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
4803 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
4804 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
4805 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
4806 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
4807 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
4808 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
4809 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
4811 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
4812 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
4813 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
4814 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
4815 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
4816 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
4817 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
4818 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
4819 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
4820 of 0. Suggested by lark.
4822 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
4823 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
4824 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
4825 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
4826 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
4829 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
4831 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
4832 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
4833 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
4834 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
4837 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
4838 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
4839 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
4840 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
4841 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
4843 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
4844 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
4845 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
4846 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
4849 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
4850 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4851 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
4852 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
4853 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
4854 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
4855 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
4856 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
4859 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
4860 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
4861 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
4862 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
4865 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
4866 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
4867 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
4868 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
4869 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
4870 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
4873 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
4874 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4875 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
4876 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
4877 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
4878 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4881 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
4882 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
4883 reported by Matt Edman.
4884 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
4886 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
4887 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
4888 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
4889 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
4891 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
4892 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4893 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
4894 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4895 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
4896 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
4897 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
4898 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
4899 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
4900 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
4901 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
4902 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
4903 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
4904 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
4905 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
4906 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4907 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
4908 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
4909 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
4912 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
4913 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
4914 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
4915 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
4918 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
4919 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
4920 the letter of C99's alias rules.
4923 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
4924 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
4925 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
4926 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
4928 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
4929 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
4930 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
4933 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
4934 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
4937 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
4938 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
4939 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
4940 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
4941 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
4943 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
4944 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
4945 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
4946 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
4947 identify a connection.
4948 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
4949 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
4950 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
4951 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
4952 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
4953 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
4954 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4955 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
4956 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
4957 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
4959 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
4960 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
4961 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
4962 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
4963 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
4964 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
4965 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
4968 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
4969 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
4971 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
4972 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
4973 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
4974 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
4975 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
4976 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
4977 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4978 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
4980 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
4981 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
4982 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
4983 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
4984 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
4985 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
4986 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
4987 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
4988 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
4989 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
4990 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
4991 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
4992 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
4993 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
4994 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
4995 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
4996 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
4997 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
4998 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
4999 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
5000 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
5001 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
5002 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
5003 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
5004 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
5005 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
5006 840. Patch from rovv.
5007 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
5008 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
5009 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
5011 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
5012 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
5013 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
5014 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
5015 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
5016 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
5017 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
5019 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5020 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
5021 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
5024 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
5025 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
5027 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
5028 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
5029 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
5030 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
5031 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
5032 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
5033 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
5034 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
5035 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
5037 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
5039 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
5040 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
5044 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
5045 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
5046 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
5047 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
5048 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
5049 have had some time to upgrade.)
5052 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
5053 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
5056 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
5057 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
5058 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
5059 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
5060 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
5063 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
5064 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
5066 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
5067 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5068 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
5069 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
5070 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
5071 entirely. Patch from coderman.
5074 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
5075 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5076 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
5077 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
5078 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
5079 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5080 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
5084 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
5085 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
5086 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
5087 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
5088 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
5089 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
5090 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
5093 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
5094 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
5095 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
5096 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
5097 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
5099 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
5100 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
5101 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
5102 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
5103 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
5104 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
5105 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5106 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
5107 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
5108 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
5112 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
5113 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
5114 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
5116 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
5117 without support for deprecated functions.
5118 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
5120 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5121 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
5122 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
5123 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
5124 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5125 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
5126 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
5127 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
5128 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
5129 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
5130 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
5131 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
5132 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
5133 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
5134 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
5135 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
5136 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
5137 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
5138 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
5139 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
5140 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
5141 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
5142 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
5144 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
5145 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
5146 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
5147 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
5148 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
5149 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
5151 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
5152 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
5153 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
5154 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
5155 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
5157 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
5158 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
5159 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
5161 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
5162 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
5165 o Deprecated and removed features:
5166 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
5167 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
5168 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
5171 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5172 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
5173 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
5174 with log.h on Android.
5175 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
5176 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
5179 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
5180 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
5182 o New directory authorities:
5183 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
5187 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
5188 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
5189 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
5190 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
5191 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
5192 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5195 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
5196 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
5197 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
5198 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
5199 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
5200 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
5201 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
5202 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
5204 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
5205 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
5206 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
5207 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
5210 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
5211 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
5213 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
5214 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
5215 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
5216 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
5217 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
5218 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
5219 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
5220 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
5221 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
5222 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
5223 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
5224 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
5225 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
5226 Implements proposal 148.
5227 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
5228 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
5229 system to do it for us.
5230 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
5231 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
5232 this fix will be slightly helpful.
5233 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
5234 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
5235 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
5236 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
5237 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
5238 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
5239 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
5240 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
5241 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
5244 o Minor features (controller):
5245 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
5246 been fetched and validated.
5247 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
5248 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
5249 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
5250 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
5251 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
5252 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
5255 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
5256 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5257 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
5258 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
5259 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
5261 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
5262 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
5263 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
5264 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
5265 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
5266 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
5267 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
5268 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
5269 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
5271 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5272 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
5273 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
5274 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
5275 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
5276 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
5277 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
5278 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
5280 o Deprecated and removed features:
5281 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
5283 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
5284 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
5285 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
5287 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5288 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
5289 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
5291 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
5292 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
5293 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
5294 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
5295 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
5296 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
5299 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
5300 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
5301 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
5302 fixes a variety of other issues.
5305 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
5306 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
5307 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
5308 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
5311 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
5312 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
5313 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
5314 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
5317 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
5318 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5319 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
5323 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
5325 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
5326 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
5327 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
5328 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
5329 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
5330 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
5331 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
5333 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
5334 rest, and don't automatically fail.
5335 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
5336 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5337 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
5338 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
5340 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
5341 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
5342 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
5343 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
5344 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
5345 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
5346 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
5347 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
5348 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
5349 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
5351 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
5355 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
5356 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
5357 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
5359 o Minor features (controller):
5360 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
5364 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
5365 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
5366 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
5367 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
5368 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
5369 variety of other issues.
5372 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
5373 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
5374 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
5375 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
5376 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
5377 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
5378 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
5379 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
5380 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
5381 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
5382 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
5383 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
5386 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
5387 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5389 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5390 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
5391 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
5392 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
5393 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
5394 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
5395 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5396 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
5397 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
5398 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
5399 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
5400 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
5401 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
5402 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
5403 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
5407 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
5408 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
5409 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
5410 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
5411 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
5412 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
5413 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
5414 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
5415 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
5416 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
5417 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
5418 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
5419 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
5420 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
5421 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
5422 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
5423 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
5424 list. It has been gone for many months.
5425 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
5426 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
5427 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
5430 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5431 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
5432 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
5435 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
5436 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
5437 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
5438 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
5439 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
5440 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
5441 variety of other issues.
5444 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
5445 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
5446 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
5447 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
5448 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
5449 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
5450 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
5451 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
5452 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
5453 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
5454 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
5455 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
5456 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
5457 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
5460 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
5461 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
5462 Suggested by Lucky Green.
5463 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
5464 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
5465 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
5466 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
5467 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
5468 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
5470 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
5471 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
5473 o Hidden service performance improvements:
5474 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
5475 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
5476 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
5477 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
5478 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
5479 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
5480 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
5481 faster after restart.
5484 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
5485 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
5486 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
5487 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
5488 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
5489 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
5490 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
5491 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
5492 840. Patch from rovv.
5493 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
5494 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
5495 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
5496 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
5497 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
5498 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
5499 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
5500 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
5501 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
5503 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
5504 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
5505 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
5506 have already been marked for close.
5507 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
5508 introduction points.
5509 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
5510 memory performance during directory parsing.
5511 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
5512 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
5513 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
5514 because of a pending download.
5517 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
5518 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
5519 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
5520 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
5523 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
5524 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
5525 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
5526 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
5527 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
5528 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
5529 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
5530 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
5531 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
5532 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
5533 lookups more reliable.
5534 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
5535 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
5536 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
5537 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
5538 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
5539 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
5540 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
5543 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
5544 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
5545 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5546 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
5547 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
5548 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
5549 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
5550 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
5551 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
5552 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
5553 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
5555 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
5556 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
5557 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
5558 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
5559 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
5560 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5561 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
5562 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
5563 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5566 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
5567 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
5568 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
5569 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
5570 locked down these days.
5571 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
5572 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
5573 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
5574 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
5575 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
5577 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
5578 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
5579 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
5580 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
5581 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
5582 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
5583 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
5584 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
5585 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
5586 people find host:port too confusing.
5587 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
5588 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
5589 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
5592 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5594 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
5595 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
5596 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
5597 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
5598 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
5600 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
5601 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
5602 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
5603 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
5604 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
5605 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
5606 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
5607 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
5608 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
5609 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
5610 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
5611 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
5613 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
5614 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
5615 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
5616 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
5617 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
5618 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
5619 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5620 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
5621 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
5623 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
5624 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
5625 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
5626 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
5627 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
5628 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5629 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
5630 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
5631 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
5632 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
5633 bug 820, reported by seeess.
5634 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
5635 list. It has been gone for many months.
5637 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5638 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
5639 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
5640 actual mistakes we're making here.
5641 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
5642 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
5643 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
5644 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
5647 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
5648 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
5649 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
5650 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
5653 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
5654 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
5655 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
5656 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
5657 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
5658 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
5660 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
5661 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
5662 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
5663 pointed out by rovv.
5666 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
5667 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5668 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
5669 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
5670 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
5671 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
5672 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
5673 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
5674 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
5675 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5676 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
5677 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
5678 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
5679 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
5680 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
5681 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
5682 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
5683 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
5684 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
5685 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
5686 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
5689 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
5690 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
5691 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
5692 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
5693 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
5694 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
5695 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
5698 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
5700 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
5701 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
5702 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
5703 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
5704 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
5705 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
5706 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
5708 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
5709 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
5710 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
5711 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
5712 known descriptor before building circuits.
5714 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
5715 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
5716 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
5717 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
5718 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
5719 identify a connection.
5720 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
5721 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
5722 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
5724 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
5725 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
5726 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
5727 pointed out by rovv.
5730 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
5731 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5732 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
5733 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
5734 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
5735 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
5736 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
5737 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
5738 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
5739 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
5740 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
5741 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
5742 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
5743 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
5744 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5747 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
5748 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
5749 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
5750 answer sections match.
5751 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
5752 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
5755 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
5756 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5759 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
5760 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
5761 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
5763 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
5764 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
5765 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5768 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
5769 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
5770 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
5771 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
5775 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
5776 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
5779 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
5780 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
5781 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
5782 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
5783 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
5784 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
5786 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
5787 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
5788 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
5791 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
5792 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
5793 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
5794 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
5795 be sent using an "early" cell.
5798 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
5799 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
5800 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
5801 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
5802 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
5803 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
5804 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
5807 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
5808 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
5809 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
5810 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
5811 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
5812 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
5813 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
5814 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
5815 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
5816 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
5817 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
5818 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
5819 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
5820 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
5821 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
5822 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
5825 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
5826 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
5827 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
5828 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
5829 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
5830 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
5831 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
5832 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
5833 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
5835 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
5836 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
5837 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
5838 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
5839 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
5842 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5843 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
5844 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
5845 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
5848 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
5849 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
5853 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
5855 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
5856 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
5857 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
5860 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
5861 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
5862 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
5865 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
5866 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
5867 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
5868 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
5869 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5870 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
5871 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
5872 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
5873 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5874 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
5875 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
5876 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
5877 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5878 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
5879 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
5880 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
5881 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
5882 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
5883 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
5884 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
5885 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
5886 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
5887 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
5890 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
5891 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
5893 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
5894 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
5895 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
5896 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
5897 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
5898 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
5899 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
5901 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
5902 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
5903 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
5904 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
5905 found by Geoff Goodell.
5908 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
5909 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
5910 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
5911 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
5912 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
5913 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
5916 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
5917 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
5918 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
5921 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
5922 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
5923 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
5924 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
5925 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5926 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
5927 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
5928 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
5929 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5930 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
5931 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
5932 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
5933 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
5934 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
5937 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
5938 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
5939 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
5941 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
5942 fingerprints with or without space.
5943 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
5944 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
5945 partway through and wants to catch up.
5946 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
5947 state to start out in.
5950 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
5951 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
5952 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5953 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
5954 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
5957 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
5958 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
5959 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
5960 some of the connection attempts fail.
5961 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
5962 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
5963 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
5964 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
5965 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
5966 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
5968 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
5969 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
5970 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
5973 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
5974 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
5975 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
5976 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
5977 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
5978 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
5979 and adds a variety of smaller features.
5982 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
5983 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
5984 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
5985 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
5987 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
5988 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
5989 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
5990 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
5992 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
5993 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
5994 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
5995 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
5996 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
5997 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
5998 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
6001 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
6002 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
6003 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
6004 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
6005 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
6007 o Memory fixes and improvements:
6008 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
6009 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
6010 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
6011 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
6012 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
6013 on a typical directory cache.
6014 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
6015 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
6016 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
6017 and may reduce fragmentation.
6018 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
6019 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
6020 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
6022 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
6023 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
6024 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
6026 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
6027 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
6031 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
6032 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
6033 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
6034 done that for a long time.
6035 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
6036 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
6037 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
6038 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
6041 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
6042 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
6043 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
6044 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
6045 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
6046 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
6048 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
6049 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
6050 output to messages of warning and error severity.
6051 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
6052 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
6053 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
6054 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
6055 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
6056 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
6057 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
6058 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
6059 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
6060 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
6061 directory requests we should expect to see.
6062 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
6064 - Lots of new unit tests.
6065 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
6066 two parallel lists in lockstep.
6069 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
6070 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
6071 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
6074 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
6075 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
6076 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
6077 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
6078 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
6079 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
6080 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
6083 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
6084 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
6085 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
6089 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
6090 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
6091 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
6094 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
6095 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
6096 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
6098 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
6099 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
6101 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
6102 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
6103 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
6104 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
6105 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6106 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
6107 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
6109 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
6110 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
6111 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
6112 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
6113 - Fix compile on Windows.
6116 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
6117 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
6118 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
6119 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
6120 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
6121 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
6122 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
6125 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
6126 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
6129 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
6130 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
6131 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
6132 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
6134 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
6135 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
6136 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
6139 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
6140 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
6141 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
6142 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
6146 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
6147 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
6148 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
6149 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
6151 o Major security fixes:
6152 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
6153 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
6154 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
6155 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
6156 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
6159 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
6160 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6163 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
6164 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
6167 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
6168 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
6171 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
6172 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
6173 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
6176 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
6177 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6180 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
6181 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
6182 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
6183 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
6184 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
6186 o New directory authorities:
6187 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
6188 it has been down for months.
6189 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
6193 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
6194 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
6196 o Minor features (security):
6197 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
6198 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
6199 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
6202 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
6203 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
6204 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
6205 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
6206 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
6207 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
6208 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
6209 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
6210 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6212 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
6213 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
6214 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6215 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
6216 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
6217 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
6218 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6219 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
6220 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
6222 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6223 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
6224 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
6225 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
6226 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
6227 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
6228 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
6229 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
6230 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
6231 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
6232 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6233 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
6234 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
6235 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
6236 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
6237 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
6238 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
6239 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
6240 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
6243 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
6244 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
6245 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
6246 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
6249 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
6250 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
6251 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
6252 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
6255 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
6256 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
6257 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
6258 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
6259 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
6262 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
6263 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
6264 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
6265 certain censored countries by default again.
6268 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
6269 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6270 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
6271 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
6272 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6273 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
6274 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
6275 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
6277 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
6278 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
6279 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
6280 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
6281 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
6282 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
6283 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
6284 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
6285 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
6286 a directory. Fix from lodger.
6288 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
6289 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
6290 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
6291 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
6292 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
6293 RelayBandwidth* values.
6294 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
6295 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
6296 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
6297 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
6298 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
6299 get_interface_address6().
6300 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
6301 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
6302 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
6304 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
6305 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
6306 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
6307 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6308 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
6309 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
6310 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6311 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
6312 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
6313 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6316 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
6317 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
6318 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
6321 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
6322 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
6323 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
6324 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
6325 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
6328 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
6329 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
6330 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
6331 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
6332 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
6333 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
6334 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
6335 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
6336 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
6339 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
6340 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
6341 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
6342 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6345 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
6346 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
6347 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
6348 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
6349 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
6350 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
6351 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
6354 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
6355 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
6356 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
6357 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
6358 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
6359 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
6360 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
6362 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
6363 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
6364 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
6365 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
6366 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
6369 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
6370 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
6372 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
6373 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
6374 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
6375 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6376 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
6377 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
6378 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
6379 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
6380 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
6381 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
6382 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
6383 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
6384 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6385 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
6386 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6387 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6388 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
6389 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
6390 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
6391 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
6392 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
6393 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
6394 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
6396 o Minor features (performance):
6397 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
6399 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
6400 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
6401 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
6402 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
6403 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
6404 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
6405 non-system include paths.
6406 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
6407 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
6410 o Minor features (other):
6411 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
6413 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
6414 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
6415 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
6418 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
6419 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
6420 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
6421 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
6423 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
6424 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
6425 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
6426 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
6428 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
6429 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
6430 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6431 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
6432 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6434 o Minor bugfixes (other):
6435 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
6436 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
6437 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
6438 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
6439 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
6440 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
6441 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
6442 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
6443 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
6444 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
6445 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
6446 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
6447 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
6448 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
6449 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6450 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
6451 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
6452 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
6453 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
6454 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
6455 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
6456 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
6457 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
6458 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
6461 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6462 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
6463 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
6467 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
6468 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
6469 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
6470 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
6471 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
6474 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
6475 Tor's x509 certificates.
6478 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
6479 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
6480 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6481 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
6482 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
6483 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6485 o Minor features (security):
6486 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
6487 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
6489 o Minor features (directory authority):
6490 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
6491 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
6492 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
6493 bandwidthburst values.
6495 o Minor features (controller):
6496 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
6497 processes from running us out of memory.
6499 o Minor features (misc):
6500 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
6501 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
6502 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
6503 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
6505 o Deprecated features (controller):
6506 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
6507 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
6508 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
6511 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
6512 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
6514 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
6515 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
6516 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6517 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
6518 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
6519 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6520 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
6521 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
6523 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
6524 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6525 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
6526 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6527 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
6528 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
6529 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
6530 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
6532 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
6533 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
6534 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
6535 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
6536 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6537 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
6538 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6539 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
6540 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6541 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
6542 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
6543 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6545 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6546 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
6548 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
6549 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
6550 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
6551 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
6552 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
6553 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
6556 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
6557 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
6558 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
6559 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
6560 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
6562 o New directory authorities:
6563 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
6567 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
6568 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
6569 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
6570 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
6571 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
6572 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
6573 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
6574 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
6578 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
6579 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
6580 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
6581 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
6582 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
6583 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
6584 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
6585 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
6586 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
6587 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
6590 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
6591 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
6592 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
6593 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
6597 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
6598 the request isn't encrypted.
6599 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
6600 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
6601 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
6602 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
6603 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
6606 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
6607 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
6610 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
6613 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
6614 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
6615 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
6617 o New directory authorities:
6618 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
6621 o Major performance improvements:
6622 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
6623 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
6624 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
6625 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
6626 memory fragmentation.
6629 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
6630 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
6631 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
6632 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
6633 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
6634 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
6635 bodies when they receive them.
6636 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
6637 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
6638 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
6640 o Minor performance improvements:
6641 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
6642 of them were actually distinct.
6643 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
6644 interested in a given message.
6647 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
6648 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
6649 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
6650 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
6651 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
6652 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
6653 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
6654 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
6655 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
6656 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
6657 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
6659 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
6660 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
6661 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
6662 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
6663 this country" and "1 person from this country".
6664 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
6665 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
6666 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
6667 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
6668 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
6670 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
6671 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
6672 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
6674 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
6675 but client versions are not.
6676 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
6677 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
6679 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
6680 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
6681 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
6682 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
6683 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
6685 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
6686 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
6687 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
6690 o Minor features (controller):
6691 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
6692 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
6693 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
6694 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
6696 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6697 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
6698 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
6699 running a test network on a single host.
6700 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
6701 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
6703 o Minor features (bridges):
6704 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
6705 unencrypted connections.
6707 o Minor features (other):
6708 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
6709 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
6710 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
6711 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
6714 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
6715 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
6716 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
6717 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6720 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
6721 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
6722 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
6723 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
6727 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
6728 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
6729 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
6730 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
6731 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
6732 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
6733 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
6734 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
6735 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
6736 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
6737 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
6738 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
6741 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
6742 rebuild our server descriptor.
6743 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
6744 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
6745 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
6746 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
6747 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
6748 nonstandard integer types.
6749 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
6750 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
6751 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
6752 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
6753 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
6755 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
6756 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
6757 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
6758 when they receive them.
6759 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
6760 This includes some 64-bit systems.
6761 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
6762 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
6763 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
6764 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
6765 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
6766 router_get_by_hexdigest().
6767 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
6768 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
6772 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
6773 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
6774 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6777 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
6778 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
6779 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
6780 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
6781 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
6782 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
6783 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
6784 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6787 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
6788 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
6789 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
6790 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
6792 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
6793 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
6796 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
6797 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
6800 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
6802 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
6803 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
6805 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
6806 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
6807 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
6808 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6809 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
6810 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
6811 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
6812 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6813 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
6814 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
6818 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
6819 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
6820 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
6823 - Make the unit tests build again.
6824 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
6825 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
6826 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
6827 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
6828 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
6829 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6830 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
6831 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
6832 the next one as a duplicate.
6835 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
6836 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
6837 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
6838 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
6841 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
6842 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
6843 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
6846 o New directory authorities:
6847 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
6851 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
6852 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
6853 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
6854 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
6855 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
6856 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
6857 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
6859 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
6860 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
6862 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
6863 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
6864 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
6865 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
6866 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
6867 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
6869 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
6870 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
6871 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6872 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
6873 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
6874 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6877 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
6878 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
6879 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
6880 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
6881 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
6882 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
6883 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
6884 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
6885 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
6886 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
6887 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
6888 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
6889 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
6890 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
6891 where Tor is blocked.
6892 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
6893 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
6894 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
6895 to a file periodically.
6896 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
6897 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
6898 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
6902 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
6903 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
6904 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
6905 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
6906 in the relevant networkstatus document.
6907 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
6908 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
6909 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6910 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
6911 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
6912 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
6913 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
6915 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
6916 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
6917 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
6918 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
6919 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
6920 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6921 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
6922 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
6923 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
6924 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6925 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
6926 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
6927 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
6928 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6929 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
6930 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
6931 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
6932 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
6933 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
6934 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6935 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6936 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
6937 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6938 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
6939 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
6940 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6941 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
6942 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6945 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
6946 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
6947 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
6948 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
6949 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
6950 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
6951 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
6952 even if your DirPort isn't on.
6953 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
6954 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
6955 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
6957 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
6958 multiple controller passwords.
6959 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
6960 router based on the router's purpose.
6961 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
6962 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
6963 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
6964 the approved-routers file.
6967 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
6968 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
6969 well as a few minor bugs.
6972 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
6973 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
6974 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
6976 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
6977 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
6978 rebuild our server descriptor.
6980 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
6981 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
6982 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
6983 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
6984 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
6985 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
6986 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
6987 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
6988 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
6989 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
6991 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
6992 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
6993 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
6994 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
6995 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
6996 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
6997 then be flexible about families.
7000 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
7001 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
7002 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
7006 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
7007 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
7008 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
7009 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
7010 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
7013 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
7014 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
7015 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
7016 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
7017 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7020 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
7021 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
7023 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
7024 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
7025 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
7026 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
7027 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
7028 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
7029 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7031 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
7032 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
7033 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
7034 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
7037 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
7038 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
7041 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
7042 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
7043 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7046 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
7047 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
7048 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
7049 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
7050 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
7051 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
7052 addresses many more minor issues.
7054 o New directory authorities:
7055 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
7058 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
7059 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
7060 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
7061 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
7063 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
7064 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
7065 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
7066 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
7067 and are reaching it.
7068 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
7069 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
7070 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
7071 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
7072 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
7073 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
7076 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
7077 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
7079 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
7080 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
7081 no longer work for clients.
7082 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
7083 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
7085 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
7086 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
7087 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
7088 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
7089 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
7090 enough directory information to build a circuit.
7091 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
7092 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
7093 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
7094 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
7095 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
7096 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
7098 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
7099 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
7100 requests for all of them.
7101 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
7103 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
7104 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
7105 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
7108 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
7109 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
7113 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
7114 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
7115 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
7116 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
7117 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
7118 networkstatuses that we already have.
7119 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
7120 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
7121 we start knowing some directory caches.
7122 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
7123 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
7124 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
7125 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
7126 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
7127 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
7128 Good in combination with --hash-password.
7129 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
7130 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
7132 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
7133 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
7134 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
7136 o Minor features (bridges):
7137 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
7138 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
7139 back to trying the bridge directly.
7140 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
7141 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
7143 o Minor features (controller):
7144 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
7145 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
7146 report the value as a "minimum skew."
7149 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
7150 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
7154 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
7155 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
7156 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
7157 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
7158 reported by tup and ioerror.
7159 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
7160 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
7162 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7163 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
7165 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
7166 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
7167 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
7169 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
7170 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7171 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
7172 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7173 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
7174 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7175 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
7177 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
7178 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
7179 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7181 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
7182 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
7183 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
7184 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
7185 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
7188 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
7189 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
7190 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
7191 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
7192 lists for a few hours each day.
7194 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
7195 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
7196 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
7197 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
7198 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
7199 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
7200 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
7201 rend_process_relay_cell().
7203 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
7204 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
7205 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
7206 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
7207 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
7208 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
7209 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
7210 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
7212 o Major bugfixes (other):
7213 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
7214 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
7215 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
7216 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
7217 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
7218 circuit cannibalization).
7219 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
7220 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
7221 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
7222 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
7223 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
7224 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
7227 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
7228 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
7230 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
7231 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
7232 absent. Resolves bug 467.
7233 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
7234 a way to trigger this remotely.)
7235 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
7236 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
7237 were reporting the dir port.)
7238 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
7239 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
7240 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
7241 the future. Fixes bug 434.
7242 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
7244 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
7245 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
7246 the onion key from getting rotated.
7247 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
7248 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
7249 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
7250 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
7251 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
7252 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
7253 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
7254 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
7255 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
7258 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
7259 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
7260 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
7261 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
7262 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
7263 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
7265 o Major features (directory system):
7266 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
7267 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
7268 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
7269 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
7270 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
7271 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
7272 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
7273 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
7274 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
7275 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
7276 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
7277 Partially implements proposal 122.
7278 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
7279 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
7282 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
7283 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
7284 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
7285 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
7287 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
7288 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
7289 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
7290 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
7291 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
7292 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7293 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
7294 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
7295 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7297 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
7298 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
7300 - Allow certificates to include an address.
7301 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
7302 and download operations.
7303 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
7304 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
7305 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
7306 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
7307 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
7308 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
7310 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
7311 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
7314 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
7315 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
7316 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
7317 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
7319 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
7320 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
7321 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
7323 o Minor features (performance):
7324 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
7325 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
7326 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
7327 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
7328 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
7329 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
7330 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
7333 o Minor features (compilation):
7334 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
7335 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
7337 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
7338 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
7339 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
7340 stick around indefinitely.
7341 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
7343 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
7344 v3 directory authority.
7345 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
7346 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
7348 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
7349 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
7350 "moria on moria:9031."
7351 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
7352 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
7353 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
7354 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
7355 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
7356 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
7357 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
7358 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
7360 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
7361 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
7362 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
7363 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
7364 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
7365 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
7366 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
7367 downloads than for other types.
7369 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
7370 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
7372 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
7373 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
7374 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7376 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7377 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
7378 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7379 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
7380 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
7381 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
7382 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
7383 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
7385 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7386 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
7387 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
7388 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
7389 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
7390 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
7391 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
7392 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7393 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
7394 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
7395 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
7397 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
7398 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
7401 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7402 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
7403 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
7404 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
7405 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
7406 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
7407 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
7408 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
7409 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
7410 so that they all take the same named flags.
7413 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
7414 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
7415 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
7418 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
7419 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
7420 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
7421 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
7422 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
7423 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
7425 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
7426 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
7427 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
7428 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
7429 annotations along with descriptors.
7430 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
7431 source, and its purpose.
7432 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
7434 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
7435 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
7436 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
7437 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
7440 o Major features (directory authorities):
7441 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
7443 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
7444 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
7445 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
7446 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
7447 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
7448 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
7450 o Major features (v3 directory system):
7451 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
7452 and download the descriptors listed in them.
7453 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
7454 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
7455 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
7457 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
7458 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
7459 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
7460 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
7463 o Major bugfixes (performance):
7464 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
7465 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
7466 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
7467 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
7469 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
7470 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
7471 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
7472 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
7473 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
7474 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
7476 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
7477 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
7479 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
7480 certificate is requested.
7481 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
7482 certificate requests.
7484 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
7485 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
7486 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
7487 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
7490 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7491 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
7492 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
7493 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7495 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
7496 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
7498 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
7499 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
7500 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
7501 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
7502 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
7503 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
7504 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
7505 downloads more sensible.
7506 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
7507 another when serving certificates.
7509 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7510 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
7511 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
7512 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
7514 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
7515 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
7516 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
7518 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
7519 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
7521 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7522 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
7523 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
7524 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
7525 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
7527 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7528 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
7529 WARN-severity events.
7530 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
7531 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
7532 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
7534 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
7535 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
7536 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
7538 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
7539 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
7540 circuit cannibalization).
7542 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7543 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
7544 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
7545 new module, networkstatus.c.
7546 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
7547 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
7548 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
7549 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
7550 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
7551 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
7552 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
7553 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
7554 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
7556 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
7558 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
7559 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
7562 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
7563 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
7564 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
7565 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
7567 o New directory authorities:
7568 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
7569 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
7571 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
7572 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
7573 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7575 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7576 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
7577 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
7578 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
7579 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
7580 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
7581 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
7582 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
7583 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
7584 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
7585 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7587 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
7588 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
7589 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
7590 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
7591 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
7592 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
7593 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
7594 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
7595 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
7597 o Minor features (security):
7598 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
7599 address maps to an internal address space.
7600 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
7601 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
7603 o Minor features (guard nodes):
7604 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
7605 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
7606 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
7607 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
7609 o Minor features (speed):
7610 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
7611 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
7612 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
7613 on big-endian hosts.)
7615 o Minor features (controller):
7616 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
7617 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
7618 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
7619 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
7623 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
7624 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
7625 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
7626 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
7627 implementation of proposal 104.
7628 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
7629 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
7630 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
7631 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
7632 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
7633 patch from Karsten Loesing.
7634 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
7635 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
7638 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
7639 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
7640 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7641 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
7642 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7643 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
7644 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7645 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
7646 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
7647 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7648 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
7649 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
7650 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
7651 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7652 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
7653 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
7654 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
7655 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7656 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
7657 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
7659 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7660 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
7661 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
7663 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
7664 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
7665 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
7666 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
7669 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
7670 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
7671 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
7672 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
7673 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
7676 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
7677 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
7680 o Major bugfixes (security):
7681 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
7682 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
7683 become more of a headache than it's worth.
7685 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
7686 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
7687 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
7689 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
7690 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
7691 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
7692 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
7693 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
7694 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
7696 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
7697 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
7698 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
7699 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
7700 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
7702 o Minor features (controller):
7703 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
7704 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
7705 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
7706 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
7708 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7709 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
7710 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
7711 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
7712 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
7713 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
7714 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
7715 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
7717 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7718 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
7719 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
7720 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
7721 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
7722 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
7723 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
7724 if we ran off the end of the list.
7725 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
7726 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
7727 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
7728 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
7729 every time we change any piece of our config.
7730 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
7731 encourage people using them to stop.
7732 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
7734 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
7735 servers to choose a circuit.
7736 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
7737 unparseable piece of it.
7740 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
7741 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
7742 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
7743 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
7746 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
7747 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
7748 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
7749 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
7750 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
7752 o New directory authorities:
7753 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
7756 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
7757 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
7758 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
7759 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
7761 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
7762 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
7763 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
7765 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
7766 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
7767 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
7768 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
7769 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
7770 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
7772 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
7773 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
7774 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7777 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
7778 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
7779 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
7780 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
7784 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
7785 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
7786 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
7787 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
7789 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
7790 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
7792 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
7793 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
7794 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
7795 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
7796 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
7797 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
7798 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7799 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
7800 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7801 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
7804 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
7805 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
7806 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
7807 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
7808 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
7809 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
7812 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
7813 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
7814 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
7815 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
7818 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
7819 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
7820 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
7821 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
7822 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
7825 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
7826 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
7827 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
7828 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
7829 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
7832 o Minor features (directory servers):
7833 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
7834 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
7836 o Minor features (directory voting):
7837 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
7840 o Minor features (security):
7841 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
7842 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
7843 encourage people using them to stop.
7845 o Minor features (controller):
7846 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
7847 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
7848 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
7849 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
7850 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
7851 cookie authentication file, and config option
7852 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
7854 o Minor features (unit testing):
7855 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
7856 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
7857 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
7858 logging for the unit tests.
7860 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
7861 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
7862 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
7863 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
7864 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
7865 every time we change any piece of our config.
7866 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
7867 the future. Fixes bug 434.
7868 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
7870 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
7871 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
7872 the onion key from getting rotated.
7873 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
7874 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
7875 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
7878 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7879 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
7880 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
7882 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
7883 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
7884 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
7885 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
7888 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
7889 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
7890 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
7891 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
7892 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
7893 TorK, etc. Or worse.
7895 o Major security fixes:
7896 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
7897 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
7900 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
7901 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
7902 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
7903 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
7905 o Major security fixes:
7906 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
7907 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
7909 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
7910 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
7913 o Minor features (performance):
7914 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
7915 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
7916 performance-intensive.
7917 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
7918 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
7919 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
7920 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
7921 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
7922 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
7926 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
7927 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
7928 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
7929 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
7933 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
7934 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
7935 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
7936 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
7937 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
7939 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
7940 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
7941 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
7942 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
7944 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
7945 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
7946 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
7947 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
7948 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
7950 o Major features (experimental):
7951 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
7952 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
7953 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
7954 handling before it's ready for use.
7957 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
7958 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
7959 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
7960 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
7961 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
7962 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
7964 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
7965 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
7966 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
7967 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
7968 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
7970 o Major bugfixes (directory):
7971 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
7972 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
7974 o Minor features (controller):
7975 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
7976 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
7977 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
7979 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
7981 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
7982 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
7984 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
7985 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
7986 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
7987 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
7988 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
7989 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
7990 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
7993 o Minor features (misc):
7994 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
7996 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
7997 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
7998 the authority identity key.
7999 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
8001 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
8002 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
8003 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
8006 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
8007 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
8008 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
8009 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
8010 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
8011 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
8012 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
8013 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
8015 o Performance improvements:
8016 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
8018 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
8019 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
8022 o Deprecated and removed features:
8023 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
8024 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
8025 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
8026 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
8028 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
8029 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
8030 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
8031 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
8032 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
8033 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
8034 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
8035 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
8036 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
8039 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
8040 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
8041 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
8042 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
8043 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
8045 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
8046 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
8049 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8050 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
8051 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
8052 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
8053 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
8054 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
8055 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
8056 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
8057 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
8060 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
8061 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
8062 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
8063 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
8065 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8066 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
8068 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8069 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
8070 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
8071 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
8072 routerlist while inserting a new router.
8073 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
8074 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
8076 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
8077 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
8078 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
8080 o Major bugfixes (security):
8081 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
8083 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
8084 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
8085 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
8086 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
8087 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
8088 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
8089 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
8090 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
8091 guard list unless we need to.
8093 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
8094 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
8095 don't get overused as guards.
8097 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
8098 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
8099 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
8100 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
8101 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
8103 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8104 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
8105 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
8108 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8109 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
8110 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
8111 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
8112 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
8113 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
8114 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
8115 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
8118 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
8119 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
8120 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
8121 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
8123 o Minor features (directory):
8124 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
8125 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
8126 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
8127 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
8129 o Minor build issues:
8130 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
8131 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
8132 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
8133 in the tarball, not as "x".
8136 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
8137 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
8138 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
8139 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
8140 forward on a lot of fronts.
8142 o Major features, server usability:
8143 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
8144 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
8145 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
8146 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
8148 o Major features, client usability:
8149 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
8150 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
8151 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
8152 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
8153 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
8154 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
8155 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
8156 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
8158 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
8159 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
8160 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
8161 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
8162 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
8163 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
8165 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
8166 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
8167 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
8169 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
8170 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
8171 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
8172 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
8173 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
8175 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
8176 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
8177 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
8178 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
8180 o Major features, other:
8181 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
8182 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
8183 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
8184 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
8185 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
8188 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
8189 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
8190 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
8193 o Minor fixes (resource management):
8194 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
8195 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
8196 our allocated connection limit.
8197 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
8198 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
8199 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
8200 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
8201 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
8203 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
8204 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
8205 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
8207 o Minor features (build):
8208 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
8209 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
8210 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
8211 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
8213 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
8214 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
8215 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
8216 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
8217 Use this version consistently in log messages.
8219 o Minor features (logging):
8220 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
8221 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
8222 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
8223 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
8224 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
8227 o Minor features (directory system):
8228 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
8229 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
8230 not to serve V2 directory information.
8231 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
8232 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
8233 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
8235 o Minor features (controller):
8236 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
8237 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
8239 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
8240 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
8241 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
8242 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
8243 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
8244 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
8246 o Minor features (hidden services):
8247 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
8248 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
8249 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
8250 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
8252 o Minor features (other):
8254 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
8255 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
8256 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
8257 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
8258 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
8259 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
8260 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
8261 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
8262 longer a completely silly thing to do.
8263 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
8264 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
8265 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
8266 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
8269 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
8270 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
8271 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
8272 back an error and close the connection.
8273 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
8274 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
8277 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8278 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
8279 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
8280 makes the log messages nicer.
8281 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
8282 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
8283 partial results on small file reads.
8285 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
8286 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
8287 more often than they are allowed to appear.
8288 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
8289 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
8291 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8292 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
8293 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
8294 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
8296 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8297 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
8298 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
8299 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
8300 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
8301 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
8302 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
8303 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
8304 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
8305 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
8306 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
8308 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
8309 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
8310 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
8312 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
8313 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
8314 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
8315 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
8317 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8318 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
8319 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
8321 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
8322 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
8325 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8326 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
8327 implicit in other procedure arguments.
8328 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
8329 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
8330 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
8331 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
8332 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
8333 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
8334 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
8335 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
8336 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
8339 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
8340 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
8341 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
8342 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
8344 o Directory authority changes:
8345 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
8346 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
8347 or use hidden services.
8349 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8350 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
8351 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
8352 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
8353 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
8354 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
8355 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
8356 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
8357 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
8360 o Major bugfixes (security):
8361 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
8362 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
8363 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
8365 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
8366 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
8367 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
8368 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
8369 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
8370 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
8371 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
8372 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
8373 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
8374 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
8377 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
8379 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
8380 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
8382 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
8383 having a hard time downloading.
8384 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
8385 partial results on small file reads.
8386 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
8387 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
8388 the gaps in the store get very large.
8391 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
8392 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
8394 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
8395 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
8398 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
8399 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
8400 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
8401 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
8402 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
8403 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
8405 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
8406 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
8407 free speech on the Internet.
8410 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
8411 get one we don't recognize.
8412 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
8413 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
8416 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
8418 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
8419 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
8420 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
8421 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
8424 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
8425 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
8428 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
8429 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
8430 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
8431 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
8432 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
8433 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
8437 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
8438 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
8439 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
8440 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
8441 on Win98 and friends again.
8443 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8444 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
8445 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
8448 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
8449 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
8450 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
8451 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
8452 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
8453 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
8454 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
8455 and maybe also bug 397.)
8457 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8458 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
8459 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
8461 o Minor bugfixes (server):
8462 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
8465 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8466 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
8467 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
8468 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
8469 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
8471 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8472 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
8473 load on authorities.
8475 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8476 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
8477 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
8478 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
8480 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
8482 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
8483 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
8484 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
8485 the last of bug 326.)
8486 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
8487 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
8491 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
8492 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8493 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
8494 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
8495 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
8496 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
8497 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
8499 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
8500 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
8502 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8503 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
8504 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
8506 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
8507 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
8508 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
8510 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8511 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
8512 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
8513 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
8515 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
8516 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
8518 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
8519 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
8520 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
8523 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8524 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
8525 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
8526 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
8527 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
8528 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
8529 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
8530 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
8531 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
8532 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
8533 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
8534 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
8535 other than file-not-found.
8536 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
8537 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
8538 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
8539 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
8540 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
8541 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
8542 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
8543 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
8544 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
8545 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
8546 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
8547 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
8548 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
8549 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
8550 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
8552 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
8554 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
8555 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
8557 o Minor features (controller):
8558 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
8559 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
8560 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
8562 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
8563 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
8564 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
8565 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
8566 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
8567 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
8568 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
8569 connected or resolved cell.
8571 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8572 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
8573 some profiles, but not others.)
8574 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
8575 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
8576 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
8579 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
8581 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
8582 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
8583 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
8584 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
8585 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
8586 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
8587 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
8588 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
8589 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
8590 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
8591 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
8592 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
8593 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
8594 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
8595 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
8597 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
8600 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
8601 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
8602 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
8603 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
8604 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
8605 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
8606 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
8608 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
8609 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
8610 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
8611 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
8612 buckets go absurdly negative.
8613 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
8614 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
8617 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
8618 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
8619 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
8620 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
8621 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
8622 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
8623 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
8624 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
8627 o Major bugfixes (other):
8628 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
8629 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
8630 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
8631 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
8633 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
8635 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
8636 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
8638 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
8639 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
8640 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
8641 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
8642 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
8645 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
8646 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
8647 possible memory-stomping bugs.
8648 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
8649 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
8651 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
8652 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
8653 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
8654 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
8655 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
8656 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
8658 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8659 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
8660 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
8661 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
8663 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
8664 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
8665 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
8666 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
8667 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
8668 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
8669 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
8670 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
8671 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
8672 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
8673 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
8674 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
8675 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
8677 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
8678 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
8679 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
8680 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
8681 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
8682 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
8683 to the resulting address.
8686 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
8687 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
8688 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
8689 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
8692 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
8693 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
8695 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
8696 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
8697 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
8698 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
8699 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
8700 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
8701 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
8702 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
8703 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
8704 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
8705 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
8706 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
8707 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
8708 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
8709 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
8710 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
8711 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
8714 o Minor features (controller):
8715 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
8716 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
8717 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
8718 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
8719 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
8720 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
8721 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
8725 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
8727 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
8728 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
8729 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
8730 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
8731 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
8732 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
8735 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
8736 weren't planning to resolve.
8737 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
8738 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
8739 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
8740 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
8741 the controller from learning about current events.
8743 o Minor features (more controller status events):
8744 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
8745 learn when our address changes.
8746 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
8747 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
8748 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
8749 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
8751 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
8752 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
8753 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
8754 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
8755 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
8756 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
8757 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
8758 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
8759 are accepted by a directory.
8760 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
8761 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
8762 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
8763 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
8764 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
8766 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
8767 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
8768 about changes to DNS server status.
8770 o Minor features (directory):
8771 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
8772 too much load to the exit nodes.
8775 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
8777 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
8778 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
8779 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
8780 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
8781 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
8783 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
8784 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
8785 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
8787 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
8788 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
8789 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
8790 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
8791 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
8792 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
8793 config options if you like.
8795 o Minor features (config and docs):
8796 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
8797 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
8798 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
8799 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
8800 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
8802 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
8803 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
8804 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
8805 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
8806 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
8808 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
8809 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
8810 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
8811 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
8812 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
8813 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
8814 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
8815 documentation: "make check-docs".
8816 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
8817 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
8819 o Minor features (DNS):
8820 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
8821 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
8822 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
8823 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
8824 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
8825 our tests for DNS hijacking.
8827 o Minor features (directory):
8828 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
8829 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
8830 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
8831 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
8832 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
8833 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
8834 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
8835 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
8836 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
8837 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
8838 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
8839 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
8840 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
8841 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
8842 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
8843 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
8844 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
8845 for the thing we're trying to download.
8846 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
8847 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
8848 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
8850 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
8851 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
8852 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
8855 o Minor features (controller):
8856 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
8857 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
8859 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
8860 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
8861 entry guard status as it changes.
8863 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
8864 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
8865 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
8866 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
8868 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
8869 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
8870 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
8871 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
8874 o Major bugfixes (security):
8875 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
8876 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
8877 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
8878 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
8880 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
8881 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
8882 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
8883 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
8884 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
8886 o Major bugfixes (other):
8887 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
8888 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
8889 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
8890 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
8892 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
8893 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
8894 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
8895 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
8896 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
8897 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
8901 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
8902 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
8903 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
8904 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
8905 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
8907 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
8908 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
8910 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
8911 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
8912 family lists conveniently.
8913 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
8914 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
8915 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
8917 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
8918 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
8920 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
8921 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
8922 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
8923 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
8924 if their identity keys are as expected.
8925 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
8926 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
8927 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
8929 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8930 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
8931 reported by Mike Perry.
8932 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
8933 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
8934 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
8935 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
8938 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
8939 o Security bugfixes:
8940 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
8941 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
8942 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
8943 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
8947 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
8948 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
8949 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
8952 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
8954 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
8955 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
8956 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
8959 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
8960 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
8961 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
8962 watching for STREAM events.
8963 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
8964 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
8965 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
8966 operations, for profiling.
8969 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
8970 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
8971 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
8972 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
8973 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
8974 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
8976 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
8980 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
8981 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
8982 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
8983 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
8984 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
8986 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
8987 correctly in the Windows installer.
8988 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
8989 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
8990 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
8992 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
8993 when we're running as a client.
8996 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
8998 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
8999 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
9000 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
9001 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
9002 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
9003 its circuits on demand.
9004 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
9005 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
9006 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
9007 connections more stable on average.
9008 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
9009 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
9010 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
9012 o Security bugfixes:
9013 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
9014 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
9017 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
9019 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
9020 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
9021 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
9022 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
9023 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
9024 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
9025 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
9026 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
9029 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
9031 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
9032 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
9033 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
9034 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
9035 routers for even longer.
9036 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
9037 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
9038 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
9039 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
9040 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
9041 caching HTTP proxies.
9042 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
9045 o Minor features, controller:
9046 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
9047 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
9048 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
9049 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
9051 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
9052 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
9053 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
9054 working much like those for circuit events.
9055 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
9056 about the current status of a router.
9057 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
9058 a router's status has changed.
9059 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
9060 can tell which events and features are supported.
9061 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
9062 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
9064 o Security bugfixes:
9065 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
9066 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
9069 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
9070 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
9071 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
9072 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
9073 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
9074 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
9075 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
9076 long nicknames where appropriate.
9077 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
9078 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
9079 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
9080 chews through many circuits before giving up.
9081 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
9082 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
9083 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
9084 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
9085 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
9086 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
9088 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
9089 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
9090 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
9092 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
9093 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
9094 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
9095 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
9096 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
9097 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
9098 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
9099 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
9100 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
9101 (reported by fookoowa).
9102 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
9103 and reported by some Centos users.
9104 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
9105 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
9106 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
9107 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
9108 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
9109 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
9110 before we check for libevent.
9113 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
9115 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
9116 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
9117 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
9118 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
9119 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
9120 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
9121 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
9122 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
9123 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
9124 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
9125 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
9126 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
9127 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
9128 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
9129 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
9130 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
9131 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
9132 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
9133 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
9134 lets you turn it off.
9135 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
9136 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
9137 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
9138 us into the directory more quickly.
9140 o New/improved config options:
9141 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
9142 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
9143 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
9144 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
9145 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
9146 all the machines on the same subnet.
9147 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
9148 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
9149 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
9150 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
9151 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
9152 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
9153 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
9154 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
9155 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
9156 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
9158 o Minor features, controller:
9159 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
9160 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
9161 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
9162 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
9163 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
9164 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
9165 for more information.
9166 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
9167 best guess to the user.
9168 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
9169 descriptor has changed.
9170 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
9172 o Minor features, other:
9173 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
9174 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
9175 useful to the network.
9176 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
9177 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
9178 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
9179 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
9180 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
9181 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
9182 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
9183 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
9184 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
9185 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
9186 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
9187 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
9188 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
9189 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
9190 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
9192 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
9193 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
9194 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
9195 could return an unnamed server instead.
9196 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
9197 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
9198 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
9199 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
9200 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
9201 a more attractive target for compromise.)
9202 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
9203 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
9204 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
9206 o Major bugfixes, other:
9207 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
9208 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
9209 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
9210 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
9211 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
9212 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
9213 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
9214 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
9215 its circuits on demand.
9216 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
9217 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
9218 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
9219 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
9221 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
9222 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
9223 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
9225 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
9227 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
9228 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
9229 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
9230 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
9231 "extendcircuit" request.
9232 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
9233 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
9234 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
9236 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
9237 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
9238 instead of "X resolved to X".
9239 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
9240 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
9241 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
9242 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
9243 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
9244 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
9245 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
9246 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
9247 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
9249 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
9250 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
9251 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
9252 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
9253 result more than once.
9254 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
9255 non-versioning dirservers.
9256 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
9257 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
9259 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
9260 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
9261 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
9262 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
9263 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
9264 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
9265 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
9266 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
9267 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
9269 o Packaging, features:
9270 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
9271 now universal binaries.
9272 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
9273 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
9274 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
9276 o Packaging, bugfixes:
9277 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
9278 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
9279 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
9280 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
9282 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
9283 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
9284 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
9287 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
9288 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
9289 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
9293 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
9295 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
9296 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
9297 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
9298 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
9299 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
9300 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
9301 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
9302 it can't resolve its hostname.
9305 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
9306 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
9307 "extendcircuit" request.
9308 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
9309 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
9310 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
9311 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
9313 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
9314 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
9315 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
9317 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
9318 methods: these are known to be buggy.
9319 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
9320 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
9324 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
9326 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
9327 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
9328 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
9329 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
9330 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
9331 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
9332 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
9333 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
9334 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
9335 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
9336 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
9337 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
9338 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
9339 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
9340 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
9341 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
9342 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
9343 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
9344 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
9345 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
9346 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
9347 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
9348 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
9349 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
9352 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
9353 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
9354 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
9355 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
9356 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
9357 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
9358 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
9359 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
9360 recommendation system saner.)
9361 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
9363 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
9364 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
9365 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
9366 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
9367 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
9368 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
9369 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
9370 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
9371 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
9372 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
9373 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
9374 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
9376 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
9377 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
9378 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
9379 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
9380 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
9381 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
9382 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
9383 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
9384 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
9385 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
9386 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
9387 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
9389 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
9390 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
9391 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
9392 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
9393 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
9394 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
9397 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
9398 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
9399 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
9400 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
9401 our DirPort now, etc.
9402 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
9403 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
9404 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
9405 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
9406 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
9407 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
9408 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
9410 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
9411 whether the config options are bad or good.
9412 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
9413 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
9414 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
9415 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
9416 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
9417 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
9418 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
9419 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
9422 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
9423 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
9424 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
9425 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
9426 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
9427 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
9428 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
9429 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
9430 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
9431 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
9432 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
9433 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
9434 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
9435 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
9436 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
9437 of it), is not therefore "up".
9438 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
9439 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
9440 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
9441 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
9442 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
9443 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
9446 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
9448 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
9449 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
9450 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
9451 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
9452 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
9453 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
9454 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
9455 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
9456 test reachability, so you won't publish.
9459 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
9460 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
9461 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
9462 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
9463 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
9465 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
9466 own server descriptor yet.
9469 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
9471 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
9472 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
9473 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
9474 make sure to test via one of these.
9475 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
9476 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
9477 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
9478 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
9479 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
9481 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
9482 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
9483 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
9486 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
9487 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
9488 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
9489 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
9490 directory authority.
9491 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
9492 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
9493 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
9494 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
9497 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
9498 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
9499 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
9501 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
9502 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
9503 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
9504 current guards when picking a new guard.
9505 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
9506 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
9507 when we had more than one pending.
9508 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
9509 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
9510 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
9511 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
9512 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
9513 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
9514 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
9515 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
9516 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
9517 debug the reachability problems better.
9519 o Log / documentation fixes:
9520 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
9521 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
9522 about protocol violations by others.
9523 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
9524 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
9525 about what happened to our old torrc.
9528 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
9530 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
9532 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
9533 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
9534 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
9535 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
9538 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
9540 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
9541 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
9542 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
9543 old ORPort and receive connections.
9544 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
9546 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
9547 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
9548 and network-statuses.
9549 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
9550 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
9551 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
9552 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
9554 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
9557 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
9558 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
9559 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
9562 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
9564 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
9565 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
9566 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
9567 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
9568 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
9571 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
9572 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
9574 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
9575 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
9576 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
9577 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
9578 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
9579 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
9580 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
9581 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
9582 rather than not sending anything back at all.
9583 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
9584 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
9585 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
9586 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
9587 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
9588 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
9589 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
9590 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
9591 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
9592 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
9593 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
9594 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
9595 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
9596 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
9597 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
9598 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
9599 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
9600 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
9601 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
9602 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
9603 default ulimit -n is 1024.
9606 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
9607 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
9608 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
9609 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
9612 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
9614 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
9615 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
9616 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
9617 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
9618 entry guards running these flawed versions.
9619 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
9620 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
9621 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
9622 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
9623 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
9626 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
9627 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
9629 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
9630 and it is confusing some users.
9631 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
9632 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
9633 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
9634 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
9635 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
9638 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
9640 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
9641 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
9642 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
9643 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
9644 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
9645 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
9646 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
9647 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
9648 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
9649 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
9650 dirport is set for now.
9652 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
9653 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
9654 unattached before we fail it?
9655 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
9656 at least this many seconds ago.
9657 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
9658 at least this many seconds ago.
9661 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
9662 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
9663 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
9664 or resolve-wait stream.
9665 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
9666 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
9667 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
9668 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
9669 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
9670 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
9671 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
9672 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
9674 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
9675 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
9676 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
9677 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
9678 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
9679 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
9680 given as hex digests.
9681 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
9682 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
9683 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
9684 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
9685 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
9686 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
9687 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
9688 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
9691 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
9692 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
9693 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
9694 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
9695 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
9696 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
9697 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
9698 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
9699 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
9700 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
9701 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
9704 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
9705 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
9706 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
9707 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
9708 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
9709 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
9710 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
9713 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
9714 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
9715 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
9716 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
9717 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
9718 misreading their logs.
9719 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
9720 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
9721 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
9722 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
9723 valid router descriptors.
9724 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
9725 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
9726 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
9727 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
9728 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
9729 silently resetting it to its default.
9730 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
9732 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
9735 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
9737 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
9738 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
9739 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
9740 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
9741 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
9743 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
9744 because older Tors do not understand it.
9745 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
9749 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
9750 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
9751 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
9752 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
9753 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
9754 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
9755 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
9756 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
9757 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
9758 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
9759 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
9761 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
9762 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
9763 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
9764 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
9766 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
9767 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
9770 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
9771 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
9772 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
9773 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
9774 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
9775 without getting overloaded.
9776 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
9778 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
9779 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
9780 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
9781 be forward-compatible.
9782 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
9783 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
9784 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
9785 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
9787 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
9788 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
9789 and OR conns to port 443.
9790 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
9791 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
9793 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
9794 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
9795 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
9796 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
9797 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
9798 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
9799 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
9802 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
9803 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
9804 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
9805 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
9807 o Other important bugfixes:
9808 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
9809 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
9810 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
9811 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
9813 o Backported features:
9814 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
9815 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
9816 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
9817 without getting overloaded.
9818 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
9819 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
9820 503's whenever they feel busy.
9821 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
9822 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
9823 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
9824 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
9825 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
9828 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
9829 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
9830 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
9831 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
9832 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
9833 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
9834 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
9835 know if the crashes continue.
9836 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
9837 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
9838 seg faults in at least some cases.)
9839 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
9840 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
9841 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
9844 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
9845 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
9846 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
9847 try to be a bit more fair.
9848 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
9849 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
9850 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
9851 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
9852 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
9853 bug that let it go negative.
9854 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
9855 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
9856 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
9857 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
9858 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
9859 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
9860 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
9861 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
9862 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
9863 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
9864 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
9867 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
9869 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
9870 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
9871 service descriptors.
9874 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
9875 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
9876 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
9877 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
9879 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
9880 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
9881 versions *are* still recommended.
9882 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
9883 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
9884 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
9885 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
9886 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
9887 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
9888 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
9889 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
9891 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
9892 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
9893 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
9894 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
9895 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
9896 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
9897 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
9898 on it. Not used by clients yet.
9899 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
9900 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
9901 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
9902 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
9903 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
9904 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
9905 established a circuit.
9906 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
9907 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
9908 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
9909 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
9912 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
9913 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
9914 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
9915 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
9916 quickly enough. Oops.
9917 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
9919 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
9920 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
9923 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
9924 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
9925 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
9926 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
9927 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
9928 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
9929 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
9930 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
9931 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
9932 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
9933 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
9934 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
9935 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
9936 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
9937 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
9938 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
9939 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
9942 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
9943 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
9944 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
9945 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
9946 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
9947 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
9948 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
9949 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
9950 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
9951 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
9952 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
9953 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
9954 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
9955 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
9956 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
9957 connections more reliable.
9960 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
9961 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
9962 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
9963 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
9964 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
9965 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
9966 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
9967 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
9968 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
9969 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
9970 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
9971 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
9972 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
9973 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
9977 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
9978 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
9979 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
9980 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
9981 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
9982 need to be uint64_t's.
9983 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
9984 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
9985 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
9987 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
9989 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
9990 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
9991 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
9992 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
9993 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
9994 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
9995 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
9997 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
9998 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
9999 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
10000 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
10001 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
10002 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
10003 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
10004 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
10005 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
10006 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
10007 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
10008 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
10009 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
10012 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
10013 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
10014 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
10015 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
10016 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
10017 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
10018 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
10020 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
10021 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
10022 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
10023 can answer v2 directory requests too.
10024 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
10025 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
10026 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
10027 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
10029 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
10030 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
10031 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
10032 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
10033 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
10034 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
10035 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
10036 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
10037 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
10038 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
10039 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
10040 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
10041 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
10042 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
10043 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
10045 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
10046 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
10049 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
10050 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10051 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
10052 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
10053 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
10054 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
10055 too -- so detect and avoid this.
10056 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
10058 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
10059 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
10060 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
10061 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
10062 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
10063 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
10064 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
10065 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
10066 rendezvous circuits.
10067 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
10069 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10070 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
10071 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
10072 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
10073 advertising it because of hibernation.
10074 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
10075 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
10076 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
10077 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
10078 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
10079 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
10080 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
10081 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
10082 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
10083 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
10084 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
10085 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
10086 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
10087 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
10090 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
10091 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10092 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
10093 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
10094 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
10095 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
10096 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
10097 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
10098 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
10099 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
10100 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
10101 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
10102 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
10103 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
10104 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
10105 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
10106 connections once a week.
10107 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
10108 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
10109 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
10110 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
10111 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
10112 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
10114 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
10115 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
10116 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
10118 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10119 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
10120 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
10121 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
10122 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
10123 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
10124 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
10125 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
10126 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
10127 firewall options forbid.
10128 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
10129 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
10130 can only proxy to certain destinations.
10131 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
10132 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
10133 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
10134 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
10135 aids some statistical attacks.
10136 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
10137 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
10138 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
10139 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
10141 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
10142 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
10143 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
10144 server descriptor sometimes.
10145 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
10146 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
10147 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
10148 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
10149 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
10150 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
10151 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
10152 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
10154 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
10155 case the controller wants to change that too.
10156 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
10157 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
10158 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
10159 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
10161 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
10162 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
10163 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
10165 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
10166 descriptors that they know they will reject.
10168 o Features and updates:
10169 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
10170 significantly faster.
10171 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
10172 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
10173 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
10174 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
10175 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
10176 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
10177 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
10178 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
10179 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
10180 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
10181 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
10182 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
10183 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
10184 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
10185 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
10186 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
10187 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
10188 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
10189 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
10190 as authoritative dirserver.
10191 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
10192 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
10193 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
10196 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
10197 o Usability improvements:
10198 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
10199 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
10201 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
10202 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
10203 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
10205 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
10206 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
10207 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
10208 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
10209 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
10210 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
10211 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
10212 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
10213 memory leaks better.
10214 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
10215 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
10216 their operators to pay close attention.
10217 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
10218 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
10220 o Performance improvements:
10221 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
10222 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
10223 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
10224 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
10225 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
10226 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
10227 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
10228 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
10229 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
10230 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
10231 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
10232 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
10233 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
10234 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
10235 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
10236 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
10237 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
10239 o Security improvements:
10240 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
10241 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
10242 fingerprint of server.
10243 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
10244 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
10245 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
10247 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10248 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
10249 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
10250 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
10251 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
10252 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
10253 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
10254 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
10255 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
10256 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
10257 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
10258 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
10259 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
10260 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
10261 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
10262 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
10263 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
10264 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
10265 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
10266 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
10267 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
10269 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
10270 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
10271 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
10273 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
10274 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
10276 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
10277 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
10278 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
10279 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
10280 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
10281 of the controller protocol.
10282 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
10283 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
10284 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
10287 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
10288 o New features (major):
10289 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
10290 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
10291 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
10292 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
10293 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
10294 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
10295 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
10296 we're using a default DirPort.
10297 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
10299 o New features (minor):
10300 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
10301 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
10302 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
10303 mirrors still cache and serve it).
10304 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
10305 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
10306 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
10307 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
10308 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
10309 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
10310 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
10311 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
10312 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
10313 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
10314 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
10315 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
10316 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
10317 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
10318 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
10320 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
10321 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
10322 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
10323 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
10324 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
10325 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
10326 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
10327 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
10329 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
10330 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
10331 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
10332 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
10333 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
10334 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
10335 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
10336 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
10337 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
10338 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
10340 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
10341 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
10342 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
10343 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
10344 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
10346 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
10347 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
10348 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
10350 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
10351 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
10353 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
10354 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
10355 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
10356 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
10357 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
10358 don't warn twice about the same name.
10359 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
10360 if we've not heard of the server.
10361 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
10362 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
10365 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
10366 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10367 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
10368 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
10369 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
10370 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
10371 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
10372 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
10373 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
10374 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
10375 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
10376 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
10377 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
10378 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
10379 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
10382 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
10383 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
10384 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
10385 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
10386 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
10388 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
10389 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
10390 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
10391 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
10392 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
10393 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
10397 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
10398 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
10399 nickname) is reachable by you.
10400 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
10403 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
10404 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
10405 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
10406 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
10407 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
10408 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
10409 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
10410 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
10411 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
10412 we fail to connect).
10413 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
10414 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
10415 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
10416 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
10418 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
10419 it was self-testing that told us so.
10422 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
10423 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
10424 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
10425 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
10426 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
10427 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
10428 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
10429 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
10430 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
10431 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
10432 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
10433 exit policy using him for any exits.
10434 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
10437 o New controller features/fixes:
10438 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
10439 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
10440 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
10441 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
10442 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
10443 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
10444 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
10445 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
10446 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
10448 o Start on the new directory design:
10449 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
10450 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
10452 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
10453 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
10454 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
10455 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
10457 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
10458 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
10459 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
10460 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
10461 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
10462 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
10463 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
10464 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
10467 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
10468 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
10469 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
10470 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
10471 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
10472 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
10473 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
10474 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
10475 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
10476 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
10478 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
10479 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
10480 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
10481 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
10482 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
10483 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
10484 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
10485 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
10486 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
10488 o Config option changes:
10489 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
10490 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
10491 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
10492 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
10493 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
10494 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
10496 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
10497 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
10498 people have started using them for spam too.
10499 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
10500 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
10501 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
10502 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
10503 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
10504 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
10505 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
10506 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
10507 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
10508 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
10509 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
10510 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
10511 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
10512 services faster on the service end.
10513 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
10514 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
10515 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
10516 it a fair shake next time we try.
10517 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
10518 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
10519 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
10520 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
10521 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
10522 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
10523 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
10524 able to discover them.
10525 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
10526 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
10527 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
10528 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
10529 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
10530 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
10531 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
10532 testing for reachability.
10533 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
10534 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
10536 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
10538 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
10539 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
10542 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
10543 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
10545 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10546 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
10547 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
10548 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
10551 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
10552 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10553 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
10555 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
10556 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
10559 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
10560 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
10563 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
10564 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
10565 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
10566 options, getinfo keys.
10569 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
10570 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10571 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
10572 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
10573 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
10574 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
10575 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
10577 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
10578 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
10582 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
10583 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
10584 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
10586 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
10588 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
10589 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
10590 circuit events and we go offline.
10591 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
10592 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
10593 you don't have enough intro points already.
10595 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
10596 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
10597 many bytes we've used in this time period.
10598 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
10599 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
10600 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
10601 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
10602 enabled by default yet.
10604 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
10605 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
10606 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
10607 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
10608 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
10611 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
10612 o New directory servers:
10613 - tor26 has changed IP address.
10615 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10616 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
10617 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
10618 pthreads libraries.
10619 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
10620 claims its dirport is 0.
10621 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
10622 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
10626 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
10627 o New directory servers:
10628 - tor26 has changed IP address.
10630 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
10631 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
10633 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
10634 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
10635 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
10636 ports that have changed.
10637 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
10639 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
10640 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
10641 Windows-style errno back.
10642 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
10644 want to make it an NT service.
10645 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
10646 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
10647 name, give the full name in our response.
10648 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
10649 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
10650 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
10651 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
10652 pthreads libraries.
10654 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
10655 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
10659 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
10660 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
10661 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
10662 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
10663 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
10666 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
10667 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10668 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
10669 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
10670 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
10671 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
10672 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
10673 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
10676 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
10678 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
10679 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
10680 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
10681 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
10682 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
10683 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
10685 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
10686 temporarily unreachable.
10687 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
10691 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
10692 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
10693 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
10694 our protocol works.
10695 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
10699 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
10700 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
10701 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
10702 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
10703 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
10707 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
10708 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
10709 libevent before 1.1a.
10712 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
10714 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
10715 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
10716 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
10717 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
10718 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
10720 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
10721 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
10722 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
10723 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
10724 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
10725 of CPU time plus memory.
10726 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
10727 normal web requests.
10728 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
10729 tor_lookup_hostname().
10730 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
10731 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
10732 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
10733 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
10734 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
10735 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
10737 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
10738 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
10739 HttpProxyAuthenticator
10740 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
10741 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
10742 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
10744 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
10745 the user asks you to.
10746 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
10747 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
10748 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
10749 their descriptors are being rejected.
10750 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
10754 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
10756 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
10757 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
10758 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
10760 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
10762 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
10764 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
10765 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
10766 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
10767 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
10768 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
10769 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
10770 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
10771 keys) from the exit server's process.
10772 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
10773 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
10774 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
10775 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
10776 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
10777 point at your Tor server.
10778 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
10779 you're not sending a socks reply back.
10782 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
10783 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
10784 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
10785 to make it easier to write controllers.
10788 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
10790 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
10791 installing on Tiger.
10792 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
10793 complain during installation.
10794 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
10795 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
10796 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
10797 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
10798 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
10799 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
10801 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
10802 something more reasonable when first installing.
10803 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
10806 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
10808 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
10809 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
10811 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
10812 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
10813 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
10814 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
10815 when using the default exit policy.
10816 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
10817 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
10818 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
10819 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
10820 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
10821 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
10822 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
10823 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
10824 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
10825 we fetched a new directory.
10826 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
10827 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
10830 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
10831 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
10832 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
10833 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
10834 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
10835 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
10836 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
10837 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
10839 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
10840 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
10841 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
10842 save memory on systems that need to fork.
10843 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
10844 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
10845 is valid without actually launching Tor.
10846 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
10847 rather than just rejecting it.
10850 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
10852 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
10853 we didn't like its cert.
10855 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
10856 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
10857 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
10858 on patch from Adam Langley.
10859 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
10860 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
10861 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
10862 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
10864 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
10865 directory every time you regenerate it.
10866 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
10867 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
10870 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
10871 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
10872 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
10873 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
10874 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
10877 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
10879 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
10880 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
10881 TLS errors better in other situations too.
10882 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
10883 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
10884 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
10885 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
10886 and don't log when you are.
10887 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
10888 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
10890 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
10891 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
10892 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
10893 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
10894 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
10897 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
10898 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
10899 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
10900 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
10901 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
10902 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
10903 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
10904 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
10905 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
10906 nickname+key are allowed.
10907 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
10908 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
10909 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
10910 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
10911 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
10912 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
10913 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
10914 have quite wrong clocks).
10915 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
10916 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
10917 - Efficiency improvements:
10918 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
10919 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
10920 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
10921 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
10922 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
10923 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
10924 lowercase and be done with it.
10925 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
10926 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
10927 to abandon partially built circuits.
10928 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
10929 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
10931 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
10933 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
10934 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
10935 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
10936 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
10938 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
10939 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
10941 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
10942 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
10943 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
10944 obeying the exit policy internally.
10945 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
10946 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
10948 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
10949 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
10950 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
10951 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
10953 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
10954 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
10955 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
10956 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
10957 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
10959 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
10960 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
10961 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
10962 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
10963 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
10964 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
10965 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
10966 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
10967 descriptors we just dropped.
10968 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
10969 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
10970 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
10971 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
10972 artificially capped at 500kB.
10975 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
10976 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
10977 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
10978 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
10979 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
10980 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
10981 busy for more than 100 seconds.
10984 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
10985 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
10986 - Fixes on reachability detection:
10987 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
10988 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
10989 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
10990 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
10991 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
10992 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
10993 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
10994 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
10995 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
10996 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
10997 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
10998 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
10999 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
11000 server not already connected to them.
11001 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
11002 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
11003 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
11005 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
11007 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
11008 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
11009 are in a different state than they actually are.
11010 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
11011 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
11012 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
11014 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
11015 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
11016 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
11018 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
11019 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
11020 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
11021 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
11022 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
11023 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
11024 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
11026 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
11027 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
11028 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
11029 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
11032 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
11033 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
11034 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
11035 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
11036 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
11037 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
11038 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
11039 creating actual system users.
11040 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
11041 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
11045 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
11047 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
11048 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
11049 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
11050 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
11051 hidden services better.
11052 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
11054 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
11055 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
11056 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
11057 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
11058 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
11059 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
11060 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
11061 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
11062 patch by Matt Edman).
11063 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
11064 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
11065 required exit node for certain sites.
11066 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
11067 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
11068 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
11069 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
11070 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
11071 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
11072 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
11073 rather than just "success" or "failure".
11074 - A more sane version numbering system. See
11075 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
11076 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
11077 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
11079 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
11080 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
11081 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
11082 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
11083 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
11084 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
11085 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
11087 o Robustness/stability fixes:
11088 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
11089 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
11090 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
11092 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
11093 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
11094 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
11096 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
11097 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
11098 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
11100 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
11101 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
11102 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
11103 that will want high uptime circuits.
11104 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
11105 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
11106 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
11107 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
11108 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
11109 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
11110 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
11111 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
11112 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
11113 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
11114 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
11115 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
11116 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
11117 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
11118 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
11119 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
11120 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
11121 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
11122 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
11123 when we try to launch one.
11124 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
11125 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
11126 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
11127 "ShutdownWaitLength".
11128 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
11129 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
11130 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
11131 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
11132 and to take errno into account where possible.
11135 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
11136 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
11137 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
11138 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
11139 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
11140 file more reasonable.
11141 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
11142 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
11143 addresses -- it won't.
11144 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
11145 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
11146 for google.com" problem.
11147 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
11148 so it's not just "unknown platform".
11149 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
11150 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
11151 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
11152 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
11154 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
11155 they could use instead.
11156 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
11157 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
11158 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
11159 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
11160 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
11161 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
11162 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
11163 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
11164 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
11166 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
11170 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
11171 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
11173 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
11174 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
11175 private-IP addresses.
11176 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
11177 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
11179 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
11180 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
11181 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
11182 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
11183 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
11184 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
11185 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
11187 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
11188 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
11189 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
11190 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
11191 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
11192 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
11193 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
11194 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
11196 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
11198 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
11199 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
11200 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
11201 whether the server is hibernating.
11204 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
11205 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
11206 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
11207 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
11208 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
11209 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
11210 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
11211 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
11212 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
11213 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
11214 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
11215 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
11216 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
11217 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
11218 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
11220 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
11221 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
11222 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
11223 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
11224 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
11225 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
11226 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
11227 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
11228 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
11229 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
11230 existing torrc files.
11231 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
11234 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
11235 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
11236 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
11237 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
11238 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
11239 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
11240 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
11241 the win32 SYSTEM account.
11242 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
11243 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
11244 file descriptors available.
11245 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
11246 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
11247 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
11250 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
11251 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
11252 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
11253 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
11255 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
11256 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
11257 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
11258 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
11259 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
11261 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
11262 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
11263 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
11264 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
11265 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
11266 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
11267 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
11268 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
11269 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
11270 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
11271 800kB/s of capacity.
11272 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
11275 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
11276 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
11277 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
11278 need as much processor time.
11279 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
11280 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
11281 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
11282 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
11283 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
11284 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
11285 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
11286 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
11287 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
11288 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
11289 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
11290 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
11292 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
11293 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
11294 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
11295 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
11296 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
11297 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
11298 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
11301 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
11302 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
11303 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
11305 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
11306 style address, then we'd crash.
11307 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
11308 a dirserver is broken.
11309 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
11311 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
11312 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
11313 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
11315 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
11316 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
11317 name out of the warning/assert messages.
11318 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
11319 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
11320 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
11322 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
11323 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
11324 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
11326 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
11328 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
11329 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
11330 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
11331 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
11332 values at once couldn't work.
11333 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
11334 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
11335 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
11336 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
11337 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
11338 they can handle any number of routers.
11339 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
11340 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
11341 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
11342 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
11343 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
11344 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
11345 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
11346 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
11347 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
11350 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
11351 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
11352 - Make hibernation actually work.
11353 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
11354 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
11355 don't use the stream status code.
11358 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
11360 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
11361 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
11363 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
11366 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
11367 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
11368 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
11369 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
11370 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
11371 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
11372 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
11373 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
11374 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
11375 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
11377 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
11378 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
11379 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
11380 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
11381 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
11382 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
11383 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
11384 - Make unit tests work on win32.
11387 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
11388 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
11389 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
11391 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
11392 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
11393 than just chopping them off.
11394 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
11396 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
11397 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
11398 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
11399 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
11400 right after sending the begin cell.
11401 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
11402 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
11403 exit nodes too. Oops.
11406 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
11407 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
11408 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
11409 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
11410 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
11411 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
11412 the user knows which one it's talking about.
11413 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
11414 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
11415 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
11418 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
11419 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
11420 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
11421 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
11423 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
11425 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
11426 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
11427 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
11429 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
11430 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
11431 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
11432 Clip rather than rejecting.
11433 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
11434 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
11437 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
11438 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
11439 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
11440 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
11442 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
11445 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
11446 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
11447 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
11448 win32 socket errors better.
11450 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
11451 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
11454 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
11455 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
11456 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
11457 so we don't see those messages days later.
11459 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
11460 - Make tor-resolve work again.
11461 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
11462 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
11465 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
11466 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
11467 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
11468 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
11470 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
11471 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
11472 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
11475 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
11476 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
11477 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
11478 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
11479 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
11480 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
11481 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
11482 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
11483 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
11485 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
11486 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
11487 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
11488 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
11490 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
11491 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
11494 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
11495 hibernation properties by
11496 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
11497 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
11498 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
11499 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
11500 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
11501 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
11502 get back to normal.)
11503 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
11505 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
11506 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
11507 to fill the last cell completely.
11508 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
11511 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
11512 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
11513 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
11514 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
11515 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
11516 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
11517 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
11518 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
11519 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
11520 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
11521 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
11523 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
11524 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
11525 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
11526 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
11527 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
11528 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
11529 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
11530 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
11532 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
11533 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
11534 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
11535 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
11536 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
11537 have it on start-up.
11540 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
11541 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
11542 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
11543 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
11544 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
11545 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
11546 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
11547 configuration to torrc.
11548 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
11549 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
11550 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
11551 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
11552 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
11554 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
11555 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
11556 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
11557 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
11558 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
11559 log more informatively.
11560 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
11561 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
11562 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
11563 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
11564 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
11565 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
11566 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
11567 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
11568 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
11569 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
11570 from each other, to hinder linkability.
11573 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
11574 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
11575 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
11576 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
11577 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
11578 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
11579 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
11581 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
11582 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
11583 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
11584 they ran out of file descriptors.
11585 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
11586 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
11587 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
11588 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
11589 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
11590 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
11591 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
11593 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
11596 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
11597 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
11598 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
11599 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
11600 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
11601 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
11602 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
11603 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
11604 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
11605 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
11606 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
11607 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
11608 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
11609 with the control port.
11610 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
11611 use in authenticating to the control interface.
11612 - New log format in config:
11613 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
11614 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
11617 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
11618 from their dirserver.
11619 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
11621 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
11622 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
11623 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
11624 them act more like real nodes.
11625 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
11626 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
11628 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
11629 nickname to its identity key.
11630 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
11631 not on the command line.
11632 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
11633 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
11634 1024) file descriptors.
11636 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
11637 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
11639 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
11640 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
11641 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
11644 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
11645 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
11646 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
11647 exit policy, not reject *:*.
11648 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
11649 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
11650 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
11651 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
11652 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
11653 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
11654 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
11657 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
11658 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
11659 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
11660 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
11661 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
11662 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
11663 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
11666 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
11667 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
11668 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
11669 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
11670 the ones we find in directories.)
11671 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
11673 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
11674 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
11676 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
11677 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
11678 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
11680 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
11681 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
11682 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
11683 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
11685 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
11686 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
11687 any more exit policy lines.
11690 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
11691 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
11692 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
11693 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
11694 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
11695 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
11696 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
11697 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
11698 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
11699 will be able to get a directory.
11700 - Http proxy support
11701 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
11702 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
11703 be routed through this host.
11704 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
11705 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
11706 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
11707 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
11710 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
11712 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
11713 clients/servers with an open dirport.
11714 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
11715 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
11716 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
11717 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
11718 intermittent connections.
11719 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
11720 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
11722 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
11723 in reporting stats locally.
11724 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
11725 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
11726 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
11729 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
11731 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
11732 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
11735 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
11737 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
11738 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
11739 if you don't want it open.
11740 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
11741 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
11742 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
11743 intermittent connections.
11744 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
11746 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
11747 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
11748 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
11749 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
11750 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
11751 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
11752 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
11753 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
11754 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
11755 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
11756 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
11757 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
11758 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
11759 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
11760 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
11761 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
11764 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
11765 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
11766 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
11767 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
11768 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
11770 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
11772 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
11773 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
11774 specified in HTTP 1.0.
11775 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
11776 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
11777 than once per minute.
11778 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
11779 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
11782 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
11783 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
11786 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
11787 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
11788 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
11789 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
11792 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
11793 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
11795 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
11796 don't put it into the client dns cache.
11797 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
11798 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
11799 until we get our next directory.
11801 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
11802 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
11803 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
11804 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
11805 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
11806 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
11807 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
11808 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
11809 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
11810 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
11811 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
11813 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
11815 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
11816 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
11818 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
11819 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
11820 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
11822 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
11824 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
11825 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
11826 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
11827 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
11828 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
11829 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
11830 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
11831 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
11834 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
11835 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
11836 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
11837 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
11840 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
11841 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
11842 ask them to resolve the host "".
11845 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
11846 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
11847 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
11848 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
11849 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
11850 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
11851 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
11852 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
11853 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
11854 clients don't use this yet.)
11855 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
11856 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
11857 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
11858 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
11859 for pointing out this bug.)
11860 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
11861 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
11862 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
11863 kazaa, gnutella ports.
11864 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
11866 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
11867 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
11868 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
11869 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
11870 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
11871 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
11872 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
11873 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
11874 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
11875 wolf unpredictably.
11876 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
11877 that's still handshaking.
11878 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
11879 you'll choose it for your path.
11880 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
11881 end relay cell, etc.
11882 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
11883 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
11884 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
11887 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
11888 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
11890 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
11891 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
11892 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
11893 list to decide who's running or verified.
11894 - Bugfixes and features:
11895 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
11896 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
11897 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
11898 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
11899 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
11900 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
11902 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
11903 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
11904 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
11905 know you might want to get it verified.
11906 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
11909 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
11911 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
11912 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
11913 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
11914 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
11916 o Protocol changes:
11917 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
11918 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
11919 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
11920 hadn't heard of before.
11923 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
11924 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
11925 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
11926 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
11927 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
11928 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
11929 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
11930 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
11931 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
11932 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
11933 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
11934 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
11935 - Directory caching.
11936 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
11937 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
11938 directory they've pulled down.
11939 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
11940 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
11941 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
11942 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
11943 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
11944 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
11945 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
11947 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
11948 This isn't used yet.
11949 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
11950 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
11951 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
11952 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
11953 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
11954 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
11955 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
11956 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
11957 - File and name management:
11958 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
11959 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
11961 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
11962 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
11963 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
11964 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
11965 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
11966 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
11967 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
11969 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
11970 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
11971 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
11972 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
11973 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
11975 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
11976 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
11977 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
11978 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
11979 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
11980 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
11981 - New docs in the tarball:
11983 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
11986 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
11987 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
11988 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
11991 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
11992 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
11993 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
11996 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
11997 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
12000 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
12001 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
12002 - Make it build on Win32 again.
12003 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
12004 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
12008 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
12010 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
12011 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
12012 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
12013 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
12014 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
12015 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
12016 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
12017 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
12018 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
12019 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
12022 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
12025 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
12026 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
12027 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
12028 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
12030 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
12031 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
12032 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
12034 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
12035 hidden service per 15-minute period.
12036 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
12037 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
12038 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
12039 o Fixes for security bugs:
12040 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
12041 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
12042 a trusted dirserver.
12044 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
12045 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
12046 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
12047 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
12048 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
12049 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
12050 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
12051 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
12052 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
12053 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
12055 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
12056 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
12057 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
12058 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
12060 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
12061 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
12062 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
12063 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
12064 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
12065 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
12066 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
12067 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
12068 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
12069 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
12070 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
12071 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
12072 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
12075 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
12076 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
12077 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
12078 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
12081 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
12082 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
12083 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
12084 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
12085 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
12086 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
12087 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
12091 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
12092 [version bump only]
12095 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
12096 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
12097 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
12098 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
12099 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
12101 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
12104 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
12105 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
12106 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
12107 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
12108 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
12109 o Better debugging for tls errors
12110 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
12111 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
12112 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
12113 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
12114 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
12115 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
12116 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
12117 o win32's close can't close a socket.
12120 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
12121 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
12122 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
12123 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
12124 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
12125 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
12126 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
12127 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
12128 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
12129 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
12130 just close the circ.
12131 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
12132 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
12133 (this was quite rare).
12136 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
12137 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
12138 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
12139 if you decrypted them correctly.
12140 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
12141 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
12142 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
12145 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
12146 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
12147 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
12148 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
12149 a second one and it works.
12150 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
12151 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
12152 alice would just have to wait to time out.
12153 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
12154 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
12155 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
12156 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
12157 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
12158 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
12159 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
12160 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
12161 i'd still like to find the bug though.
12162 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
12164 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
12168 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
12169 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
12170 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
12171 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
12172 he retries a couple of times
12173 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
12174 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
12175 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
12176 too long (they were sticking around forever).
12177 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
12181 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
12182 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
12183 - make hup work again
12184 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
12185 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
12186 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
12187 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
12188 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
12189 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
12191 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
12192 o changes from 0.0.5:
12193 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
12194 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
12195 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
12196 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
12197 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
12199 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
12200 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
12201 in-memory directories too
12204 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
12205 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
12208 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
12210 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
12211 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
12212 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
12213 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
12216 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
12217 [version bump only]
12220 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
12221 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
12223 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
12224 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
12225 but that aren't warnings
12228 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
12229 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
12230 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
12231 the dns farm to do it.
12232 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
12233 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
12235 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
12236 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
12237 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
12240 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
12241 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
12242 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
12243 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
12244 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
12245 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
12246 expect it to have a nickname.
12247 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
12248 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
12251 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
12252 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
12256 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
12257 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
12258 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
12259 - include missing header fcntl.h
12260 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
12261 - deal with hardware word alignment
12262 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
12263 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
12264 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
12265 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
12266 by kill -USR1 currently.
12267 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
12268 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
12269 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
12272 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
12273 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
12274 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
12277 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
12279 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
12280 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
12281 - And fix a few endian issues.
12284 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
12286 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
12287 try that circuit again: try a new one.
12288 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
12289 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
12290 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
12291 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
12292 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
12293 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
12295 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
12296 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
12297 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
12299 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
12301 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
12302 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
12303 side isn't reading right then.
12304 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
12305 RecommendedVersions
12306 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
12307 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
12308 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
12311 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
12313 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
12314 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
12317 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
12321 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
12323 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
12324 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
12325 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
12326 connection is finished.
12327 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
12328 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
12329 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
12330 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
12331 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
12332 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
12333 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
12334 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
12335 rather than warn and continue.
12336 - Make --version work
12337 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
12340 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
12342 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
12343 knows it's working.
12344 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
12345 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
12347 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
12348 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
12349 so you can collect coredumps there.
12351 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
12352 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
12353 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
12354 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
12355 dns cache actually gets populated.
12356 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
12357 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
12358 end cell down it first.
12359 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
12360 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
12363 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
12365 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
12366 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
12368 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
12369 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
12370 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
12371 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
12372 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
12373 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
12375 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
12377 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
12378 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
12379 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
12380 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
12381 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
12382 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
12384 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
12385 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
12388 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
12390 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
12391 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
12392 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
12393 tor. It even has a man page.
12394 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
12395 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
12396 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
12397 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
12399 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
12401 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
12404 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
12406 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
12407 it, apt-getters. :)
12408 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
12409 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
12410 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
12411 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
12412 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
12413 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
12414 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
12415 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
12416 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
12417 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
12418 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
12420 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
12421 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
12424 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
12426 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
12427 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
12430 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
12432 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
12433 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
12434 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
12435 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
12436 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
12437 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
12438 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
12439 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
12440 logfile so you know it's working.
12441 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
12442 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
12445 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
12447 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
12448 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
12449 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
12452 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
12454 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
12455 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
12456 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
12459 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
12460 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
12461 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
12463 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
12464 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
12466 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
12467 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
12468 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
12470 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
12471 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
12475 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
12477 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
12478 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
12479 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
12482 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
12483 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
12484 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
12485 - Add port ranges to exit policies
12486 - Add a conservative default exit policy
12487 - Warn if you're running tor as root
12488 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
12489 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
12490 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
12491 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
12493 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
12496 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
12497 o Robustness and bugfixes:
12498 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
12499 really screw things up.
12500 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
12502 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
12503 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
12505 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
12506 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
12507 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
12508 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
12509 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
12510 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
12513 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
12516 - Change default loglevel to warn.
12517 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
12518 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
12520 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
12523 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
12524 o Robustness and bugfixes:
12525 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
12526 - to get ownership/permissions right
12527 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
12528 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
12529 pull down a directory again
12530 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
12531 causing server crashes
12532 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
12533 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
12534 - exit if bind() fails
12535 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
12536 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
12537 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
12538 - fix minor bias in PRNG
12539 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
12542 - Wrote the design document (woo)
12544 o Circuit building and exit policies:
12545 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
12547 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
12548 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
12549 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
12550 exists, rather than failing
12551 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
12552 which AP connections are standing by
12553 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
12554 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
12555 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
12557 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
12558 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
12561 - APPort is now called SocksPort
12562 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
12564 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
12565 hardcoded (for dirservers)
12566 - Reloads config on HUP
12567 - Usage info on -h or --help
12568 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
12571 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
12572 o General stability:
12573 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
12574 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
12575 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
12576 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
12577 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
12578 to take down the network when I approve a new router
12579 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
12582 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
12583 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
12585 o Autoconf improvements:
12586 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
12587 - Make install now works
12588 - create var/lib/tor on make install
12589 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
12590 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
12592 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
12593 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
12594 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
12595 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup