1 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
2 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
3 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
4 should upgrade to this version.
6 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
7 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
8 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
9 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
10 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
11 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
13 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
14 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
16 o Minor features (geoip data):
17 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
18 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
20 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
22 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
23 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
25 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
26 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
27 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
28 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
29 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
30 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
31 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
32 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
33 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
35 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
36 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
37 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
40 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
41 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series includes
42 several major bugfixes from previous series and one massive new feature:
45 Congestion control should improve traffic speed and stability on the network
46 once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more details about it in
47 proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
49 For a complete list of changes since 0.4.6.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
51 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
52 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
54 o Minor features (geoip data):
55 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
56 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
58 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
59 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down to
60 info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix on
64 Changes in version 0.4.7.6-rc - 2022-04-07
65 This is the first release candidate of the 0.4.7.x series. Only one minor
66 bugfix went in since the last alpha couple weeks ago. We strongly recommend
67 anyone running an alpha version to upgrade to this version. Unless major
68 problems are found, the next release will finally be the stable!
70 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
71 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 07, 2022.
73 o Minor features (geoip data):
74 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
75 retrieved on 2022/04/07.
77 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
78 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
79 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
82 Changes in version 0.4.7.5-alpha - 2022-03-25
83 This version contains, of what we hope, the final work for congestion
84 control paving the way to the stable version. We expect this to be the last
85 alpha version of the 0.4.7.x series. Mostly minor bugfixes except one major
86 bugfix that changes how Tor behaves with DNS timeouts for Exit relays. As
87 always with an alpha, we recommend all relay operators to upgrade from
88 previous alpha to this one.
90 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
91 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
92 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
93 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
95 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
96 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
97 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
98 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
99 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
100 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
102 o Minor features (control port):
103 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
104 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
106 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
107 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 25, 2022.
109 o Minor features (geoip data):
110 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
111 retrieved on 2022/03/25.
113 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
114 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
115 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
117 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
118 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
119 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
120 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
123 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
124 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
125 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
126 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
127 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
129 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
130 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
131 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
132 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
134 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
135 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
136 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
137 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
138 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
141 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25
142 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the
143 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes
144 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout
145 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay
146 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one.
148 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
149 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
150 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
151 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
153 o Major bugfixes (client):
154 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
155 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
156 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
157 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
158 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
159 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
161 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
162 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
163 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
164 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
166 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
167 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
170 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
171 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022.
173 o Minor features (geoip data):
174 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
175 retrieved on 2022/02/25.
177 o Minor bugfix (logging):
178 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
179 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
181 o Minor bugfix (relay):
182 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
183 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
186 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
187 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
188 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
189 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
192 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
193 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
194 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
196 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
197 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
198 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
201 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
202 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
203 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
204 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
207 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
208 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
209 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
211 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
212 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
214 o Minor features (geoip data):
215 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
216 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
218 o Minor bugfix (logging):
219 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
220 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
222 o Minor bugfix (relay):
223 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
224 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
227 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
228 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
229 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
232 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04
233 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the
234 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the
235 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented
236 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to
237 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't
238 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
240 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
241 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
242 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
245 o Minor features (compilation):
246 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
247 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
248 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
249 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
252 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
253 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
255 o Minor features (geoip data):
256 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
257 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
259 o Minor bugfix (logging):
260 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
261 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
263 o Minor bugfix (relay):
264 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
265 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
268 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
269 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
270 that does not support expanding statically initialized const
271 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
272 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
273 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
274 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
275 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
277 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
278 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
279 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
281 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
282 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
283 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
284 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
285 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
288 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15
289 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including
290 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running
291 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version.
293 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
294 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
295 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
296 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
297 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
298 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
299 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
300 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
303 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
304 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
305 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
306 and not the DNS server itself.
307 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
308 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
309 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
310 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
311 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
312 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
313 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
315 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
316 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
317 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
320 o Minor features (compilation):
321 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
322 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
323 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
324 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
327 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
328 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
330 o Minor features (geoip data):
331 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
332 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
334 o Minor features (portability):
335 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
336 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
339 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
340 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
341 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
342 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
344 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
345 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
346 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
347 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
348 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
349 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
350 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
351 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
353 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
354 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
355 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
356 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
357 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
359 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
360 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
361 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
362 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
363 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
364 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
366 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
367 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
368 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
369 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
370 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
371 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
373 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
374 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
375 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
376 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
377 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
378 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
380 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
381 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
382 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
383 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
384 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
386 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
387 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
388 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
389 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
390 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
392 o Documentation (man, relay):
393 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
394 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
397 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
398 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
399 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
400 See below for more details.
402 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
403 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
404 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
405 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
406 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
408 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
409 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
410 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
413 o Minor features (compilation):
414 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
415 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
416 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
417 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
420 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
421 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
423 o Minor features (geoip data):
424 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
425 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
427 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
428 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
429 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
430 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
431 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
433 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
434 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
435 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
436 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
437 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
439 o Documentation (man, relay):
440 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
441 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
444 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26
445 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major
446 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and
447 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays
448 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This
449 release also fixes numerous bugs.
451 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs
452 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its
453 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more
454 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for
455 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used
456 without a custom patch.
458 o Major features (congestion control):
459 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
460 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
462 o Major features (directory authority):
463 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
464 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
465 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
466 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
467 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
468 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
469 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
470 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
471 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
473 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
474 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
475 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
476 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
477 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
479 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
480 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
481 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
482 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
483 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
484 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
485 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
487 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
488 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
489 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
491 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
492 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
493 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
494 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
496 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
497 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
499 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
500 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
503 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
504 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
505 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
506 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
507 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
508 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
509 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
511 o Minor features (testing):
512 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
513 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
516 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
517 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
518 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
520 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
521 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
522 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
523 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
526 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
527 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
528 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
529 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
530 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
531 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
532 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
533 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
535 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
536 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
537 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
538 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
540 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
541 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
542 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
543 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
545 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
546 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
547 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
549 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
550 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
551 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
552 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
554 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
555 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
556 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
557 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
558 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
559 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
560 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
561 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
562 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
564 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
565 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
566 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
567 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
568 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
570 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
571 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
572 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
573 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
574 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
576 o Code simplification and refactoring:
577 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
578 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
579 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
580 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
583 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
586 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
587 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
588 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
590 o Testing (CI, chutney):
591 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
592 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
596 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
597 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
598 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
601 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
602 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
603 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
604 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
605 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
606 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
607 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
609 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
610 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
613 o Minor features (testing):
614 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
615 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
616 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
617 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
618 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
619 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
620 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
621 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
622 fix for ticket 40337.
623 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
624 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
625 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
627 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
628 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
629 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
630 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
631 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
632 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
633 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
634 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
636 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
637 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
638 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
640 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
641 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
642 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
643 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
644 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
647 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
648 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
649 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
650 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
651 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
652 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
655 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
656 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
657 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
658 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
659 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
660 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
661 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
664 o Major feature (onion service v2):
665 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
666 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
667 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
668 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
670 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
671 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
672 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
673 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
675 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
676 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
677 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
678 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
680 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
681 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
684 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
685 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
686 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
687 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
688 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
690 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
691 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
692 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
693 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
694 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
695 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
696 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
697 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
698 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
699 fix for ticket 40337.
700 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
701 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
702 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
704 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
705 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
706 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
708 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
709 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
710 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
711 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
712 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
713 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
715 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
716 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
717 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
718 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
719 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
722 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
723 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
724 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
725 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
726 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
728 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
729 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
730 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
731 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
732 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
733 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
736 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
737 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
738 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
739 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
740 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
741 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
742 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
745 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
746 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
747 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
748 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
749 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
751 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
752 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
753 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
754 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
756 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
757 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
758 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
759 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
761 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
762 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
765 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
766 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
767 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
768 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
769 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
773 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17
774 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One
775 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate
776 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes
779 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
780 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
781 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
782 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
783 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
784 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
785 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
786 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
787 40363; implements proposal 333.
789 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
790 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
791 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
792 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
794 o Minor features (fuzzing):
795 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
796 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
797 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
799 o Minor features (testing configuration):
800 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
801 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
802 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
803 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
804 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
805 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
806 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
807 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
808 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
809 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
810 fix for ticket 40337.
811 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
812 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
813 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
815 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
816 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
817 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
818 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
820 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
821 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
822 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
823 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
824 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
827 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
828 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
829 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
830 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
831 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
833 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
834 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
835 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
836 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
838 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
839 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
840 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
841 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
843 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
844 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
845 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
846 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
847 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
848 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
850 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
851 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
852 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
853 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
855 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
856 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
857 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
860 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
861 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
863 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
864 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
867 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
868 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
869 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
870 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
871 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
873 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
874 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
875 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
876 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
877 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
878 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
879 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
880 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
882 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
883 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
885 o Minor features (geoip data):
886 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
887 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
889 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
890 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
891 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
894 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
895 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid
896 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix
899 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
900 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW
901 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug
902 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
904 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
905 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
906 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
907 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
908 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
909 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
910 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
913 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
914 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
915 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
916 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
917 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
919 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
920 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
921 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
922 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
923 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
924 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
925 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
926 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
928 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
929 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
931 o Minor features (geoip data):
932 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
933 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
935 o Minor features (testing):
936 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
937 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
940 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
941 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
942 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
945 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
946 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
947 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
949 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7):
950 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
951 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
952 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
953 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
954 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
955 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
957 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6):
958 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
959 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
962 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
963 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
964 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
965 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
966 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
968 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
969 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
970 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
971 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
972 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
973 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
974 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
975 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
977 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
978 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
980 o Minor features (geoip data):
981 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
982 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
984 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
985 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
986 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
989 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
990 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
991 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
994 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
995 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
996 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
997 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
998 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1000 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1001 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1002 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1003 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1004 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1005 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1007 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1008 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1009 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1013 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1014 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1015 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1016 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1017 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1019 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1020 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1021 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1022 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1023 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1024 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1025 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1027 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1028 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1029 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1030 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1031 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1032 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1033 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1034 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1036 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1037 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1038 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1039 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1040 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1041 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1042 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1043 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1044 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1045 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1046 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1047 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1048 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1049 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1050 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1052 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1053 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1054 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1055 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1058 o Minor features (geoip data):
1059 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1060 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1062 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1063 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1064 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1065 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1066 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1067 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1070 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1071 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1072 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1076 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1077 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1078 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1079 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1080 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1082 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1083 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1084 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1086 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1087 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1088 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1089 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1090 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1091 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1092 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1094 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1095 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1096 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1097 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1098 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1099 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1100 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1101 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1103 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1104 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1105 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1106 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1107 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1108 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1109 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1110 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1111 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1112 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1113 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1114 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1115 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1116 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1117 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1119 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1120 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1121 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1122 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1125 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1126 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1127 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1129 o Minor features (geoip data):
1130 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1131 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1133 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1134 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1135 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1136 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1138 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1139 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1140 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1143 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1144 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1145 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1146 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1147 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1149 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1150 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1151 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1152 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1153 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1154 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1155 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1157 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1158 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1159 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1160 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1161 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1162 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1163 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1164 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1166 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1167 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1168 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1169 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1170 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1171 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1172 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1173 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1174 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1175 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1176 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1177 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1178 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1179 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1180 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1182 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1183 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1184 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1186 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1187 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1188 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1189 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1192 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1193 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1194 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1196 o Minor features (geoip data):
1197 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1198 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1201 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1202 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1203 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1204 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1205 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1208 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1209 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1210 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1211 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1213 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1214 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1216 o Major bugfixes (security):
1217 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1218 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1219 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1220 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1221 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1222 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1224 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1225 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1226 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1227 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1228 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1229 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1230 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1231 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1233 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1234 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1235 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1236 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1237 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1238 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1239 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1240 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1241 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1242 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1243 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1244 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1245 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1246 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1247 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1249 o Minor features (geoip data):
1250 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1251 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1253 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1254 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1255 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1256 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1257 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1260 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
1261 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
1262 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
1263 found, the next release will be stable.
1265 o Minor features (compatibility):
1266 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1267 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1268 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1271 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1272 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1273 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1274 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1275 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1277 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1278 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1279 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1280 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1281 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1282 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1285 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1286 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1287 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1291 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1292 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1293 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1296 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
1297 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
1298 from the 0.4.6.x series.
1300 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1301 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1302 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1303 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1304 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1306 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1307 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1308 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1310 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1311 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1312 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1314 o Minor features (geoip data):
1315 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1316 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1318 o Minor features (onion services):
1319 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
1320 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
1321 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
1323 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1324 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1325 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1326 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1328 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1329 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1330 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1331 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1333 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1334 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1335 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1336 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1338 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1339 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1340 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1342 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
1343 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1344 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1345 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1347 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1348 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1349 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1350 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1352 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1353 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1354 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1358 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
1359 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
1360 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
1361 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
1363 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
1364 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
1365 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
1366 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
1368 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
1369 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
1370 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
1371 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1373 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
1374 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1375 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1376 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1377 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1379 o Minor features (compilation):
1380 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1381 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1383 o Minor features (geoip data):
1384 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1385 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1387 o Minor features (onion services):
1388 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1389 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1391 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
1392 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1393 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1394 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1396 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1397 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1398 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1400 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1401 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1402 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1404 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
1405 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1406 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1407 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1410 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
1411 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
1412 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
1413 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
1416 o Minor features (client):
1417 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1418 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1419 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1420 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1422 o Minor features (command line):
1423 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1424 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1427 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1428 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1429 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1430 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1432 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
1433 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1434 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1436 o Minor features (geoip data):
1437 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1438 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
1440 o Minor features (logging):
1441 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1442 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1445 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
1446 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1447 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1448 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1450 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
1451 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1452 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1453 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1455 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1456 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1457 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1458 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1460 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1461 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
1462 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
1463 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
1466 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1467 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
1468 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1470 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1471 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1472 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1475 o Documentation (manual):
1476 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1478 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1479 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1480 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1481 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1484 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
1485 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
1486 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
1487 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
1488 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
1490 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
1491 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
1493 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1494 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1495 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1496 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1499 o Major features (directory authority):
1500 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1501 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1502 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1503 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1505 o Major features (metrics):
1506 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1507 documents. This information is controlled with the
1508 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1509 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1510 328; closes ticket 40222.
1512 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1513 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1514 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1516 o Major features (statistics):
1517 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1518 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1519 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1521 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1522 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1523 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1524 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1525 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1526 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1527 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1528 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1529 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1530 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1531 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1532 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1533 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1534 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1535 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1536 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1537 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1538 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1539 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1540 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1543 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1544 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1545 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1546 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1548 o Minor features (bridge):
1549 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1550 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1551 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1553 o Minor features (build system):
1554 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1555 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1556 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1558 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1559 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1560 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1561 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1562 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1563 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1564 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1565 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1566 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1567 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1568 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1570 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1571 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1572 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1574 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1575 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1576 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1577 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1579 o Minor features (logging):
1580 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1581 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1582 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1583 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1584 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1585 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1587 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1588 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1589 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1590 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1591 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1593 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1594 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1595 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1597 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1598 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1599 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1602 o Minor features (vote document):
1603 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1604 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1605 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1607 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1608 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1609 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1610 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1612 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1613 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1614 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1615 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1618 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1619 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1620 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1621 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1623 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1624 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1625 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1626 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1627 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1628 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1630 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1631 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1632 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1633 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1634 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1636 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1637 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1638 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1639 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1640 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1642 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1643 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1644 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1645 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1647 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1648 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1649 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1650 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1652 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1653 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1654 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1655 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1658 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1659 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1660 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1661 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1662 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1663 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1664 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1667 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1668 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1669 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1671 o Removed features (relay):
1672 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1673 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
1674 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
1675 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
1676 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
1679 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
1680 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1681 in earlier versions of Tor.
1683 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1684 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1685 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1686 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1687 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1688 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1689 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1690 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1691 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1694 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1695 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1698 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1699 compatibility issue.
1701 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1702 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1703 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1704 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1705 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1706 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1707 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1708 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1709 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1712 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1713 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1714 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1715 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1716 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1717 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1718 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1719 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1722 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1723 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1724 Closes ticket 40309.
1727 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
1728 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1729 in earlier versions of Tor.
1731 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1732 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1733 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1734 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1735 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1736 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1737 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1738 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1739 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1742 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1743 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1746 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1747 compatibility issue.
1749 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1750 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1751 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1752 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1753 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1754 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1755 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1756 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1757 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1760 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1761 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1762 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1763 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1764 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1765 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1766 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1767 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1770 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1771 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1772 Closes ticket 40309.
1775 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
1776 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
1779 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1780 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1781 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1782 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1783 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1784 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1785 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1786 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1787 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1790 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1791 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1794 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
1795 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
1797 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1798 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1799 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1800 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1801 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1802 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1803 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1804 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1805 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1808 o Minor features (geoip data):
1809 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1810 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1811 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1812 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1813 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1814 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1815 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1818 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1819 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
1820 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
1821 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
1822 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
1824 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1825 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
1826 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1828 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
1829 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
1830 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
1831 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
1832 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1834 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1835 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
1836 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1838 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1839 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
1840 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1842 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1843 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
1844 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1846 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1847 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
1848 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1849 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
1850 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
1851 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
1852 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
1853 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
1855 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
1856 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1857 Closes ticket 40309.
1860 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
1861 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
1862 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
1863 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
1864 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
1865 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
1866 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
1867 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
1868 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
1869 welcoming approach to growing our community.
1871 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
1872 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
1873 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
1874 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
1875 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
1876 smaller features and bugfixes.
1878 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1879 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1881 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
1882 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
1883 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
1884 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1886 o Minor features (protocol versions):
1887 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
1888 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
1889 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
1890 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
1891 Closes ticket 40221.
1893 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1894 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
1895 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
1896 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
1897 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
1898 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1900 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1901 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
1902 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
1904 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1905 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
1906 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
1907 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
1908 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1910 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
1911 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
1912 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
1913 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
1914 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
1918 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
1919 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1920 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1921 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1922 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1924 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1925 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1926 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1927 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1928 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1931 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1932 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1933 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1934 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1937 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1938 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1939 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1940 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1942 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1943 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1944 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1945 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1946 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1948 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1949 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1950 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1951 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1952 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1953 weasel for diagnosing this.
1955 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1956 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1957 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1958 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1959 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1960 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1961 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1963 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1964 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1965 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1966 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1968 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1969 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1970 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1971 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1973 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1974 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1975 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1976 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1977 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1978 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1979 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1981 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1982 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1985 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
1986 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1987 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1988 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1989 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1991 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
1992 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
1994 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1995 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1996 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1997 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1998 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2001 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2002 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2003 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2004 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2005 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2007 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2008 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2009 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2010 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2013 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2014 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2015 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2016 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2018 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2019 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2020 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2021 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2022 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2024 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2025 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2026 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2027 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2028 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2029 weasel for diagnosing this.
2031 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2032 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2033 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2034 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2035 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2036 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2037 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2039 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2040 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2041 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2043 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2044 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2045 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2046 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2048 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2049 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2050 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2051 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2053 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2054 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2055 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2056 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2057 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2058 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2059 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2061 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2062 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2065 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2066 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2067 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2068 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2069 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2071 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2072 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2073 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2074 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2075 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2078 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2079 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2080 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2081 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2082 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2084 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2085 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2086 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2087 should help mitigate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2090 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2091 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2092 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2093 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2095 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2096 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2097 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2098 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2099 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2101 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2102 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2103 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2104 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2105 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2106 weasel for diagnosing this.
2108 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2109 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2110 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2111 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2112 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2113 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2114 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2116 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2117 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2118 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2120 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2121 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2122 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2123 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2125 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2126 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2127 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2128 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2130 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2131 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2132 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2133 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2135 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2136 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2139 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
2140 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
2141 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
2142 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
2143 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
2145 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
2146 release, though of course that could change.
2148 o Major feature (exit):
2149 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2150 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2151 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2154 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
2155 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
2156 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
2160 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
2161 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
2162 several bugs present in previous releases.
2164 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
2165 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
2167 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
2168 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
2169 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2171 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2172 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2173 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2174 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2175 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2177 o Minor feature (build system):
2178 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2179 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2180 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2182 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2183 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2184 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2185 Closes ticket 40245.
2186 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
2187 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
2190 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2191 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
2192 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
2193 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
2194 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2195 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2196 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2198 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
2199 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
2200 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
2201 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
2202 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
2205 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2206 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2207 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2208 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2210 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2211 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
2212 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
2213 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2216 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
2217 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2218 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
2219 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
2221 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
2222 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
2223 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
2224 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
2226 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
2227 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2228 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2229 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2230 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2233 o Minor features (crypto):
2234 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2235 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2236 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2237 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2238 weasel for diagnosing this.
2240 o Minor features (documentation):
2241 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2242 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2243 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2245 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2246 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2247 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2248 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2249 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2250 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2253 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
2254 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
2255 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
2256 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
2257 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2259 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2260 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
2261 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
2263 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
2264 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
2265 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2267 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
2268 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
2269 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
2270 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
2271 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
2274 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
2275 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2276 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2277 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2280 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
2281 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
2282 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
2283 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
2284 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
2285 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
2288 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2289 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2290 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2291 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2292 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2293 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2294 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2296 o Minor features (compilation):
2297 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2298 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2299 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2300 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2302 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2303 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2304 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2305 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2306 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2308 o Minor features (safety):
2309 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2310 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2313 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2314 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2315 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2316 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2317 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2318 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2320 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2321 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
2322 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
2323 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2324 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
2325 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2326 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
2327 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
2328 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2330 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2331 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2332 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2333 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2334 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2335 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2337 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
2338 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
2339 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
2340 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2341 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
2342 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
2343 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2345 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2346 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2347 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2348 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2350 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2351 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2352 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2354 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2355 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2356 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2358 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
2359 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
2360 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2361 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
2362 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
2363 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
2364 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2366 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2367 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2368 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2369 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2370 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
2371 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
2372 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
2374 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2375 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2376 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2378 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2379 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2381 o Removed features (controller):
2382 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2383 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2386 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
2387 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
2388 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2389 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
2390 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
2391 intended for a different relay.
2393 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2394 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2395 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2396 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2397 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2398 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2399 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2401 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2402 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2403 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2404 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2405 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2406 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2407 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2408 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2409 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2410 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2411 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2413 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2414 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2415 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2416 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2417 closes ticket 40133.
2419 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2420 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2421 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2423 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2424 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2425 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2427 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2428 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2429 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2430 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2431 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2432 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2434 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2435 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2436 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2438 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2439 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2440 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2443 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2444 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2445 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2446 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2449 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
2450 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2451 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2452 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2453 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2455 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
2456 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
2457 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
2460 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2461 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2462 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2463 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2465 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2466 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2467 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2468 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2469 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2470 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2471 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2473 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2474 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2475 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2476 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2477 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2480 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2481 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2482 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2483 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2484 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2485 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2487 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2488 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2489 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2490 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2491 closes ticket 40133.
2493 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2494 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2495 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2496 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2498 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2499 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2500 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2502 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2503 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2504 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2506 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2507 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2508 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2509 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2510 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2512 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2513 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2514 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2516 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2517 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2518 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2519 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2520 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2521 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2522 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2524 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2525 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2526 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2529 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2530 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2531 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2532 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2533 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2534 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2537 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2538 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2539 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2540 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2542 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2543 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2544 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2545 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2547 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2548 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2549 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2551 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2552 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2555 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2556 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2557 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2558 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2559 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2560 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2561 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
2564 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
2565 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2566 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2567 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2568 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2570 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2571 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2572 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2573 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2575 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2576 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2577 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2578 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2579 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2580 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2581 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2583 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2584 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2585 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2586 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2587 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2590 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2591 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2592 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2593 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2594 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2595 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2597 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2598 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2599 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2600 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2602 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2603 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2604 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2605 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2606 closes ticket 40133.
2608 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2609 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2610 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2611 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2613 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2614 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2615 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2617 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2618 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2619 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2621 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2622 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2623 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2624 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2625 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2627 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2628 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2629 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2631 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2632 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2633 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2634 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2635 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2636 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2637 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2639 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2640 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2641 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2644 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2645 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2646 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2647 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2648 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2649 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2652 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2653 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2654 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2655 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2657 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2658 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2659 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2660 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2662 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2663 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2664 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2666 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2667 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2671 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
2672 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
2673 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
2674 metrics and tracing.
2676 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2677 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2678 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
2679 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
2680 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
2681 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
2682 series soon, after it has had some testing.
2684 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
2686 o Major features (build):
2687 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2688 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2689 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2690 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2691 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2693 o Major features (metrics):
2694 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2695 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2696 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2697 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2698 information and security considerations.
2699 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2700 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2701 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2702 Closes ticket 33233.
2703 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2704 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2705 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2706 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2707 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2708 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2709 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2710 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2711 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2712 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2713 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2714 Closes ticket 34067.
2716 o Major features (tracing):
2717 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2718 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2719 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2720 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2721 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2723 o Major bugfixes (security):
2724 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2725 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2726 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2727 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2728 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2729 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2731 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2732 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2733 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2734 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2735 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2736 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2738 o Minor features (address discovery):
2739 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2740 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2741 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2742 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2744 o Minor features (admin tools):
2745 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2746 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2747 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2750 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2751 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2752 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2753 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2754 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2755 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2757 o Minor features (build):
2758 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2759 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2760 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2761 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2762 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2764 o Minor features (configuration):
2765 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2766 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2767 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2768 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2769 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2770 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2772 o Minor features (control port):
2773 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2774 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2775 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2776 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2778 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2779 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2780 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2783 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2784 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2785 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2786 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2787 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2788 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2789 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2791 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2792 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2793 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2794 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2795 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2796 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2797 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2798 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2799 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2801 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2802 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2803 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2804 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2805 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2806 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2807 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2808 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2809 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2810 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2811 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2812 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2813 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2814 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2815 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2817 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2818 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2819 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2820 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2822 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2823 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2824 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2825 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2827 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2828 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2829 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2831 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2832 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2833 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2835 o Minor features (logging):
2836 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2837 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2838 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2839 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2840 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2841 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2843 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2844 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2845 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2846 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2848 o Minor features (onion services):
2849 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2850 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2851 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2853 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2854 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2855 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2856 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2857 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2858 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2860 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2861 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2862 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2863 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2864 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2865 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2866 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2868 o Minor features (relay):
2869 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2870 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2871 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2872 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2873 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2874 Closes ticket 34137.
2876 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2877 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2878 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2881 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2882 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2883 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2884 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2885 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2886 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2887 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2888 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2889 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2891 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2892 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2894 o Minor features (specification update):
2895 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2896 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2897 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2899 o Minor features (state management):
2900 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2901 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2902 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2903 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2904 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2906 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2907 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2908 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2909 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2910 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2912 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2913 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2914 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2915 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2916 closes ticket 40133.
2917 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2918 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2920 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2921 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2922 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2923 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2924 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2926 o Minor features (testing):
2927 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2928 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2930 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
2931 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2932 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2934 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2935 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2936 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2938 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2939 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2940 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2941 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2943 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2944 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2945 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2946 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2947 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2948 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2949 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2950 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2951 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2953 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2954 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2955 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2956 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2957 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2958 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2959 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2962 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2963 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2964 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2965 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2966 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2968 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2969 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
2970 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
2971 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
2974 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2975 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2976 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2977 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2978 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2980 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2981 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2982 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2983 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2984 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2985 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2986 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2987 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2990 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
2991 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2992 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2995 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2996 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2997 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2998 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2999 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
3000 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
3001 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3003 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
3004 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
3005 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
3006 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
3007 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
3008 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3010 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
3011 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
3012 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3014 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
3015 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
3016 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3017 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
3018 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
3019 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
3020 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
3021 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3023 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
3024 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3025 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3026 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3028 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3029 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
3030 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
3031 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
3032 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
3033 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
3034 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
3035 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
3036 Closes ticket 34200.
3037 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
3038 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
3039 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
3040 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
3041 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
3042 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
3043 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
3045 - Split implementation of several command line options from
3046 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
3047 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
3048 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
3049 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
3050 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
3053 o Deprecated features:
3054 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
3055 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
3056 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
3059 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
3060 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
3063 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
3064 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
3065 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
3066 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
3068 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
3069 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
3071 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
3072 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
3073 directory. Closes part of 40139.
3074 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
3075 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
3079 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
3080 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3082 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
3083 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
3084 31699; Patch by @bduszel
3086 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
3087 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
3088 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
3089 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
3090 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
3092 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3093 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
3094 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
3095 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
3096 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
3098 o Documentation (manual page):
3099 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
3100 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
3101 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
3102 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
3104 o Documentation (tracing):
3105 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
3106 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
3109 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3110 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3111 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3112 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3113 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3114 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3115 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3117 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3118 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3119 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3120 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3121 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3123 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3124 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3125 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3127 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3128 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3130 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3131 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3132 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3133 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3134 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3135 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3137 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3138 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3139 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3140 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3141 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3143 o Minor features (control port):
3144 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3145 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3146 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3148 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3149 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3150 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3151 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3152 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3153 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3155 o Minor features (tests):
3156 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3157 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3158 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3160 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
3161 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
3162 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3164 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3165 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3166 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3167 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3170 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
3171 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
3172 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
3175 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3176 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3177 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3178 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3180 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3181 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3182 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3183 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3184 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3187 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3188 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3189 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3190 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3191 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3193 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3194 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3195 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3196 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3199 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3200 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3201 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3202 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3203 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3204 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3208 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3209 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3210 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3213 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3214 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3215 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3216 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3217 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3218 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3221 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3222 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3223 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3225 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3226 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3227 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3228 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3229 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3230 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3231 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3234 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3235 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3236 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3237 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3240 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3241 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3242 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3243 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3244 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3245 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3247 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3248 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3249 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3250 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3251 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3252 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3254 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3255 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3256 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3258 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3259 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3260 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3261 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3264 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3265 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3266 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3267 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3270 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3271 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3272 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3273 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3274 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3276 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3277 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3278 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3280 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3281 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3282 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3283 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3284 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3287 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3288 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3289 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3290 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3291 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3292 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3294 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3295 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3296 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3297 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3299 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3300 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3301 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3302 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3305 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3306 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3307 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3308 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3309 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3310 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3311 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3312 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3316 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3317 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3318 several that affect usability and portability.
3320 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3321 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3322 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3323 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3324 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3325 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3326 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3329 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3330 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3331 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3332 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3335 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3336 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3337 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3338 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3339 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3340 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3342 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3343 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3344 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3345 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3346 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3348 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3349 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3350 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3351 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3353 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3354 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3355 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3356 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3357 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3358 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3360 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3361 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3362 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3364 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3365 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3366 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3367 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3370 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3371 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3372 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3373 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3376 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3377 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3378 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3379 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3380 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3381 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3384 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3385 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3386 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3388 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3389 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3390 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3391 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3393 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3394 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3395 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3396 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3397 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3400 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3401 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3402 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3403 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3404 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3405 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3407 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
3408 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3409 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3410 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3411 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3413 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3414 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3415 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3416 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3418 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3419 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3420 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3421 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3423 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3424 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3425 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3426 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3429 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3430 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3431 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3432 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3433 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3434 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3435 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3436 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3440 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
3441 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
3442 some affecting usability.
3444 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3445 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3446 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3447 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3448 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3449 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3450 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3453 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3454 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3455 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3456 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3459 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3460 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3461 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3463 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3464 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3465 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3466 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3469 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3470 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3471 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3473 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3474 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3475 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3476 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3478 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3479 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3480 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3481 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3483 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3484 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3485 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3487 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3488 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3489 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3490 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3491 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3493 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3494 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3495 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3497 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3498 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3499 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3500 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3502 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3503 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3507 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
3508 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
3509 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
3510 compatibility, and portability issues.
3512 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3513 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3514 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3515 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3516 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3517 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3518 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3521 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
3522 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3523 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3524 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3527 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3528 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3529 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3530 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3531 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3534 o Minor features (directory authority):
3535 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3536 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3537 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3538 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3539 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3541 o Minor features (entry guards):
3542 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3543 Closes ticket 40001.
3545 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3546 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3547 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3548 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3549 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3550 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3551 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3553 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
3554 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3555 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3557 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
3558 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3559 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3561 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
3562 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3563 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3566 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
3567 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3568 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3570 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3571 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3572 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3573 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3575 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3576 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3577 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3578 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3580 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3581 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3582 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3585 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3586 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3589 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
3590 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
3591 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
3592 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
3593 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
3594 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
3595 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
3596 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3599 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
3600 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
3601 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
3602 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
3603 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
3604 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3606 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
3608 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3609 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3610 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3611 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3612 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3613 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3614 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3615 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3616 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3617 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3619 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3620 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3621 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3622 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3623 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3624 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3625 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3627 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3629 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3630 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3631 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3632 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3634 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3635 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3636 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3637 Closes ticket 32709.
3639 o Minor feature (developer tools):
3640 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3641 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3643 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3644 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3645 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3646 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3649 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
3650 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3651 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3653 o Minor feature (python scripts):
3654 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3655 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3656 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3657 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3659 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3660 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3661 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3662 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3663 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3665 o Minor features (code safety):
3666 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3667 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3668 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3669 Resolves issue 33788.
3671 o Minor features (compilation size):
3672 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3673 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3675 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3676 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3677 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3678 Resolves ticket 32143.
3680 o Minor features (control port):
3681 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3682 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3683 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3684 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3686 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3687 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3688 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3689 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3690 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3691 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3693 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3694 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3695 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3696 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3698 o Minor features (directory):
3699 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3700 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3701 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3704 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3705 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3706 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3708 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3709 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3710 Closes ticket 33901.
3712 o Minor features (logging):
3713 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3714 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3716 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3717 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3718 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3719 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3720 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3721 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3722 up from ticket 33316.
3724 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3725 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3726 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3727 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3729 o Minor features (windows):
3730 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3731 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3733 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
3734 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3735 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3736 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3737 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3739 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
3740 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3741 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3742 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3744 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
3745 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3746 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3747 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3750 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3751 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3752 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3753 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3754 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3755 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3757 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3758 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3759 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3760 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3762 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3763 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3764 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3765 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3766 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3768 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3769 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3770 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3772 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3773 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3774 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3775 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3776 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3777 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3778 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3779 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3780 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3781 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3783 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
3784 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3785 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3786 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3788 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3789 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3790 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3791 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3792 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3794 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
3795 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3796 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3798 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3799 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3800 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3802 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
3803 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3804 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3806 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
3807 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3808 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3811 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3812 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3813 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3815 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3816 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3817 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3819 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3820 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3821 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3824 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3825 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3826 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3827 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3829 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3830 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3831 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3832 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3833 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3834 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3835 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3836 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3837 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3838 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3839 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3840 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3842 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3843 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3844 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3845 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3849 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3850 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3851 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3852 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3856 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3857 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3858 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3859 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3860 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3861 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3862 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3865 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3866 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3867 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3868 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3869 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3870 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3871 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3872 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3874 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3875 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3877 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3878 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3879 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3880 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3881 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3882 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3883 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3884 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3885 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3886 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3887 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3888 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3890 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
3891 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3892 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3894 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3895 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3896 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3898 o Documentation (manual page):
3899 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3900 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3901 Google Season of Docs.
3902 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3903 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3904 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3905 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3906 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3907 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3908 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3909 Closes ticket 33778.
3912 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
3913 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
3914 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
3915 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
3916 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
3917 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
3920 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3921 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3922 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3923 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
3924 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
3926 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
3927 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
3928 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
3931 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3932 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3934 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
3935 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3936 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3937 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3938 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3939 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3942 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3943 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
3944 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3945 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
3946 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
3947 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
3951 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
3952 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
3953 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
3954 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
3956 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
3957 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3958 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3959 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3960 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3961 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3963 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
3964 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3965 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3966 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3967 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3969 o Minor features (testing):
3970 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3971 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3972 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3973 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3974 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3976 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
3977 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
3978 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
3979 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3981 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
3982 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
3983 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
3984 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3986 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3987 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
3988 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
3989 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
3991 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
3992 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
3993 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
3994 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
3995 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3996 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
3997 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
3998 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
3999 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
4000 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
4001 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4003 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4004 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4005 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4006 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4007 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4008 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4010 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4011 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4012 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4013 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4014 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4015 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4018 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4019 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4020 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4021 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4022 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4023 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
4024 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
4025 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
4027 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4028 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
4029 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
4032 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4033 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4034 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4035 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4036 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4040 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4041 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4042 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4043 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4044 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4045 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4046 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4050 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
4051 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
4052 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
4053 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4054 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4055 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4056 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4057 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4058 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4059 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4060 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4063 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4064 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4065 as soon as packages are available.
4067 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4068 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4069 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4070 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4071 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4072 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4073 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4074 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4075 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4077 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4078 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4079 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4080 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4081 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4083 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4084 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4085 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4086 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4087 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4089 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4090 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4091 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4092 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4094 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4095 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4096 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4097 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4099 o Minor features (usability):
4100 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4101 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4102 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4104 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4105 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4106 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4107 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4110 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
4111 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
4112 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
4113 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
4114 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4116 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4117 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4120 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4121 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4122 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4123 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4126 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4127 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4128 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4129 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4132 o Documentation (manpage):
4133 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4134 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4135 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4136 Google Season of Docs.
4137 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4138 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4140 o Testing (Travis CI):
4141 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4142 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4143 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4145 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4146 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4147 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4148 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4149 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4152 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4153 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4154 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4155 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4156 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4157 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4158 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4159 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4160 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4161 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4162 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4163 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4165 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4166 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4167 as soon as packages are available.
4169 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4170 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4171 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4172 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4173 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4174 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4175 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4176 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4177 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4179 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4180 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4181 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4182 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4183 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4185 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4186 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4187 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4188 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4189 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4191 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4192 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4193 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4194 Closes ticket 33075.
4196 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4197 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4198 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4200 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4201 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4202 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4203 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4204 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4207 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4208 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4209 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4210 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4213 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4214 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4215 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4216 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4218 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4219 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4220 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4221 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4223 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4224 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4225 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4226 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4227 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4230 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4231 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4232 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4233 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4234 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4235 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4236 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4237 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4238 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4239 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4240 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4241 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4243 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4244 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4245 as soon as packages are available.
4247 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4248 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4249 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4250 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4251 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4252 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4253 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4254 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4255 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4257 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4258 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4259 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4260 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4261 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4263 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4264 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4265 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4267 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4268 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4269 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4270 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4271 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4274 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4275 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4276 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4277 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4280 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4281 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4282 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4283 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4285 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4286 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4287 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4288 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4290 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4291 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4292 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4293 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4294 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4297 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4298 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4299 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4300 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4301 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4302 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4303 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4304 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4305 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4306 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4307 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4310 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4311 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4312 as soon as packages are available.
4314 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4315 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4316 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4317 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4318 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4319 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4320 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4321 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4322 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4324 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4325 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4326 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4327 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4328 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4329 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4330 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4331 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4334 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4335 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4336 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4337 Closes ticket 33075.
4339 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4340 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4341 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4343 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4344 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4345 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4346 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4347 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4349 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4350 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4351 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4352 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4353 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4356 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4357 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4358 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4359 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4362 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4363 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4364 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4365 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4367 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4368 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4369 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4370 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4371 Closes ticket 32629.
4372 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4373 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4374 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4376 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4377 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4379 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4380 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4381 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4382 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4384 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4385 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4386 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4387 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4390 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
4391 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
4392 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
4393 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
4396 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
4397 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
4398 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
4399 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4401 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4402 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4403 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4404 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4406 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4407 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4408 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4409 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4410 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4411 Closes ticket 33075.
4413 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4414 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
4415 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4417 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4418 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
4419 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4420 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
4422 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4423 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4424 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4426 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4427 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4428 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4429 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4430 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4432 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4433 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4434 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4435 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4437 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
4438 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4439 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4440 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4442 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
4443 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
4444 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
4445 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
4448 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4449 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4450 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4451 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4453 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4454 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4455 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4456 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4458 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4459 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4460 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4461 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4462 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4464 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4465 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4466 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4468 o Documentation (manpage):
4469 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4470 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4471 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4474 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4475 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4476 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4477 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4478 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4479 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4481 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4482 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4483 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4484 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4485 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4486 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4487 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4488 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4490 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4491 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4492 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4494 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4495 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4496 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4497 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4499 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4500 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4501 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4502 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4504 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4505 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4506 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4507 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4508 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4509 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4512 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4513 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4514 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4516 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4517 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4518 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4519 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4520 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4521 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4522 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4523 Closes ticket 32629.
4525 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4526 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4529 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
4530 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
4531 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
4532 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
4533 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
4534 current version of 0.4.1.x.
4536 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4537 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4538 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4539 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4540 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4541 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4542 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4543 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4545 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4546 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4547 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4549 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
4550 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4551 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4552 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4553 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4555 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4556 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4557 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4559 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4560 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4561 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4562 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4563 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4564 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4565 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4566 Closes ticket 32629.
4568 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4569 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4572 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
4573 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
4574 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
4575 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
4576 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
4577 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
4578 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
4579 write better code in the future.
4581 o New system requirements:
4582 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4583 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4584 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4586 o Major features (build system):
4587 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4588 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4589 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4590 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4591 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4593 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4594 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4595 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4596 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4597 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4599 o Major features (onion service, controller):
4600 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4601 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4602 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4603 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4605 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
4606 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4607 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4608 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4610 o Major features (proxy):
4611 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4612 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4613 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4614 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4615 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4616 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4618 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
4619 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4620 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4621 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4622 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4623 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4624 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4625 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4627 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4628 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4629 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4631 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4632 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4633 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4634 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4636 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4637 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4638 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4639 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4640 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4641 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4643 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
4644 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4645 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4647 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4648 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4649 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4651 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4652 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4653 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4654 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4655 Closes ticket 31241.
4657 o Minor features (configuration):
4658 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4659 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4661 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4662 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4663 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4664 Implements ticket 32404.
4666 o Minor features (controller):
4667 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4668 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4669 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4671 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4672 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4673 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4674 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4676 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4677 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4678 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4681 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4682 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4683 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4684 Closes ticket 32772.
4686 o Minor features (developer tools):
4687 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4688 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4689 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4690 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4691 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4692 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4693 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4694 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4696 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4697 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4698 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4699 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4701 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4702 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4703 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4704 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4706 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4707 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4708 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4709 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4710 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4711 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4712 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4713 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4715 o Minor features (git scripts):
4716 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4717 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4718 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4719 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4720 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4721 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4722 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4723 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4724 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4725 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4726 Closes ticket 32216.
4727 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4728 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4729 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4730 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4732 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4733 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4734 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4735 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4736 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4737 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4739 o Minor features (portability, android):
4740 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4741 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4742 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4744 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4745 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4746 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4747 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4748 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4749 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4750 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4751 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4753 o Minor features (relay):
4754 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4755 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4757 o Minor features (release tools):
4758 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4759 Closes ticket 32704.
4761 o Minor features (testing):
4762 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4763 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4764 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4765 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4766 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4767 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4770 o Minor features (tests, Android):
4771 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4772 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4773 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4775 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4776 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4777 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4779 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4780 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4781 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4783 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4784 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4785 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4786 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4788 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4789 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4790 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4791 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4792 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4793 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4794 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4795 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4796 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4797 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4798 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4799 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4800 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4801 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4802 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4804 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4805 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4806 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4809 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
4810 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4811 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4812 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4814 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4815 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4816 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4818 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4819 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4820 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4821 Closes ticket 32213.
4822 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4823 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4824 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4826 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4827 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4828 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4829 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4830 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4833 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4834 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4836 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4837 Closes ticket 32216.
4839 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
4840 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4841 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4842 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4845 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
4846 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4847 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4848 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4850 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
4851 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4852 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4853 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4854 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4857 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
4858 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4859 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4860 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4861 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4862 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4864 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4865 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4866 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4867 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4868 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4870 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4871 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4872 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4874 o Minor bugfixes (test):
4875 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4876 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4877 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4880 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4881 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4882 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4883 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4884 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4885 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4886 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4887 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4890 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4891 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4892 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4893 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4894 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4895 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4897 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
4898 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4899 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4901 o Deprecated features:
4902 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4903 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4904 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4908 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4909 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4910 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4911 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4912 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4913 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4914 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4915 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4917 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4918 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4921 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4922 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4923 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4924 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4925 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4926 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4928 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4929 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4930 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4931 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4932 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4935 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4936 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4938 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4939 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4940 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4941 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4942 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4943 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4944 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4945 Closes ticket 32629.
4946 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4948 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4949 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4950 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4952 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4953 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4954 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4956 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4957 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4958 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4959 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4960 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4961 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4962 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4963 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4964 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4965 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4966 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4967 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4968 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4969 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4970 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4971 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4972 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4974 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4975 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4977 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4978 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4979 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4981 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4982 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4983 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4984 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4985 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4986 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4988 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4989 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4990 Closes ticket 32163.
4991 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4993 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4995 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4996 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4997 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4998 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4999 Closes ticket 32304.
5000 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
5001 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
5002 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
5003 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
5004 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
5007 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
5008 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5010 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5013 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
5014 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
5015 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
5016 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5017 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
5018 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
5019 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
5020 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5022 o Documentation (manpage):
5023 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5025 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5027 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
5028 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
5029 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
5031 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
5032 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
5033 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5035 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
5036 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
5039 o Testing (continuous integration):
5040 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5043 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5044 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5045 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5046 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5047 bugs present in previous series.
5049 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5050 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5051 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5052 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5054 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5055 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5056 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5057 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5059 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5060 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5062 o Minor features (geoip):
5063 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5064 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5067 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5068 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5069 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5070 Closes ticket 32500.
5073 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5074 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5075 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5076 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5078 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5079 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5080 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5081 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5083 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5084 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5085 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5086 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5088 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5089 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5090 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5091 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5092 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5093 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5094 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5095 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5097 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5098 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5099 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5100 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5101 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5103 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5104 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5105 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5106 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5107 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5110 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5111 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5112 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5113 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5115 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5116 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5117 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5119 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5120 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5121 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5123 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5124 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5125 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5126 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5127 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5128 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5130 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5131 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5132 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5133 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5135 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5136 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5137 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5138 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5139 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5140 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5141 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5142 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5143 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5144 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5147 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5148 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5149 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5150 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5151 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5152 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5153 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5154 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5155 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5157 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5158 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5159 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5160 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5162 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5163 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5164 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5165 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5166 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5169 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5170 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5171 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5173 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5174 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5175 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5177 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5178 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5179 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5181 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5182 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5183 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5184 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5186 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5187 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5188 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5189 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5190 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5192 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5193 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5194 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5196 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5197 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5198 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5201 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5202 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5203 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5205 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5206 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5207 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5208 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5210 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5211 Closes ticket 31859.
5212 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5213 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5215 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5216 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5217 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5218 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5219 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5220 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5221 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5222 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5223 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5224 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5226 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5227 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5228 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5229 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5230 Closes ticket 32500.
5233 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5234 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5235 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5236 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5237 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5239 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5240 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5241 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5242 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5244 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5245 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5248 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5249 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5250 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5251 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5252 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5253 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5254 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5255 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5256 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5257 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5258 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5260 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5261 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5262 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5263 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5264 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5265 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5267 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5268 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5269 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5270 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5271 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5274 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5275 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5276 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5277 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5278 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5280 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5281 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5282 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5283 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5286 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5287 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5288 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5289 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5290 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5291 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5292 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5293 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5295 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5296 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5297 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5298 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5299 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5301 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5302 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5303 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5304 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5305 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5308 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5309 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5310 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5312 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5313 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5314 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5317 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5318 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5319 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5321 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5322 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5323 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5324 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5326 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5327 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5328 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5329 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5330 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5332 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5333 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5334 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5336 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5337 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5338 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5341 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5342 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5343 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5345 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5346 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5347 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5349 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5350 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5351 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5353 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5354 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5355 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5358 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5359 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5360 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5361 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5362 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5363 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5365 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5366 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5367 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5368 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5369 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5371 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5372 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5373 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5376 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5377 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5378 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5380 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5381 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5382 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5383 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5385 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5386 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5387 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5388 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5390 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5391 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5392 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5393 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5395 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5396 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5397 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5398 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5400 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5401 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5402 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5403 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5404 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5405 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5406 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5408 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5409 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5410 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5411 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5413 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5414 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5415 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5416 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5418 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5419 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5420 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5423 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5424 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5425 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5426 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5427 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5428 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5429 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5431 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5432 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5433 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5434 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5437 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5438 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5439 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5440 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5441 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5443 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5444 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5445 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5446 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5447 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5449 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5450 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5451 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5454 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5455 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5456 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5457 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5458 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5460 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5461 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5462 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5463 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5465 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5466 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5467 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5468 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5469 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5472 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5473 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5474 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5477 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5478 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5479 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5480 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5482 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5483 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5484 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5485 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5487 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5488 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5489 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5490 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5492 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5493 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5494 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5495 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5498 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5499 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5500 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5501 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5502 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5503 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5506 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5507 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5508 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5510 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5511 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5512 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5514 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5515 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5516 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5517 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5519 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5520 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5521 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5523 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5524 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5525 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5526 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5527 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5529 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5530 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5531 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5534 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5535 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5536 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5537 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5538 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5539 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5540 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5541 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5542 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5543 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5545 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5546 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5547 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5548 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5550 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5551 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5552 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5553 Resolves issue 29702.
5555 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5556 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5558 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5559 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5560 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5561 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5564 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5565 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5566 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5567 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5569 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5570 Closes ticket 31859.
5571 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5572 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5574 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5575 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5576 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5577 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5578 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5579 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5580 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5581 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5582 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5583 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5585 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5586 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5587 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5588 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5589 Closes ticket 32500.
5591 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
5592 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
5593 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
5596 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5597 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5600 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5601 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5602 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5603 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5604 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5605 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5606 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5607 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5608 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5609 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5610 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5612 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5613 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5614 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5615 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5616 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5617 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5619 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5620 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5621 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5622 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5623 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5624 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5626 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5627 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5628 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5629 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5630 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5633 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5634 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5635 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5636 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5637 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5639 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5640 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5641 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5642 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5645 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5646 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5647 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5648 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5649 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5651 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5652 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5653 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5654 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5655 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5658 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5659 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5660 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5661 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5662 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5663 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5664 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5665 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5667 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5668 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5669 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5670 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5671 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5674 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5675 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5676 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5678 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5679 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5680 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5683 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5684 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5685 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5686 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5688 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5689 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5690 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5693 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5694 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5695 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5697 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5698 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5699 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5700 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5702 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5703 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5704 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5705 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5706 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5708 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5709 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5710 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5712 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5713 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5714 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5715 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5717 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5718 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5719 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5722 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5723 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5724 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5725 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5726 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5727 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5728 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5729 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5730 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5731 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5732 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5733 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5734 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5737 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5738 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5739 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5740 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5741 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5743 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5744 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5745 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5747 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5748 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5749 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5751 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5752 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5753 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5755 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5756 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5757 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5760 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5761 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5762 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5764 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5765 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5766 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5767 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5768 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5769 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5771 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5772 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5773 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5774 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5775 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5777 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5778 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5779 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5782 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5783 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5784 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5786 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5787 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5788 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5790 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5791 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5792 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5793 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5795 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5796 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5797 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5798 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5800 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5801 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5802 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5803 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5805 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5806 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5807 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5808 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5810 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5811 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5812 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5813 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5814 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5815 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5816 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5818 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5819 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5820 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5821 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5823 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5824 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5825 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5826 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5828 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5829 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5830 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5833 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5834 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5835 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5836 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5837 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5838 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5839 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5841 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5842 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5843 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5844 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5847 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5848 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5849 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5850 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5851 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5853 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5854 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5855 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5857 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5858 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5859 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5860 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5861 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5862 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5863 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5864 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5865 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5866 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5867 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5869 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5870 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5871 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5872 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5873 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5875 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5876 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5877 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5880 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5881 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5882 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5883 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5884 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5886 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5887 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5888 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5889 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5891 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5892 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5893 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5894 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5895 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5898 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5899 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5900 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5903 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5904 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5905 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5906 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5908 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5909 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5910 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5911 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5913 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5914 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5915 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5917 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5918 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5919 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5920 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5922 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5923 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5924 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5925 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5928 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5929 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5930 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5931 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5932 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5933 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5936 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5937 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5938 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5939 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5941 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5942 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5943 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5945 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5946 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5947 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5949 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5950 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5951 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5952 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5953 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5954 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5955 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5957 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5958 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5959 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5962 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5963 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5964 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5965 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5966 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5967 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5968 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5969 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5971 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5972 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5973 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5974 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5975 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5976 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5979 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5980 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5981 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5982 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5983 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5985 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
5986 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5987 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5988 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5989 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5990 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5991 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5992 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5994 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5995 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5996 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5999 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6000 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6001 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6002 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6003 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6004 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6005 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6006 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6007 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6008 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6010 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6011 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6012 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6013 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6014 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6015 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6017 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6018 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6019 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6020 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6022 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6023 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6024 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6025 Resolves issue 29702.
6027 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6028 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6030 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6031 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6032 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6033 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6036 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6037 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6038 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6039 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6041 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6042 Closes ticket 31859.
6043 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6044 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6046 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6047 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6048 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6049 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6050 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6051 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6052 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6053 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6054 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6055 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6057 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6058 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6059 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6060 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6061 Closes ticket 32500.
6063 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
6064 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
6065 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
6066 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
6068 o Minor features (build system):
6069 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
6070 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
6072 o Minor features (geoip):
6073 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6074 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
6076 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
6077 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6078 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6079 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6080 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6081 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6083 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6084 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
6085 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6087 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6088 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
6089 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6091 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
6092 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
6093 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
6094 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
6095 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6097 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
6098 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
6099 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
6100 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
6101 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6103 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
6104 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
6105 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6106 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
6107 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6109 o Testing (continuous integration):
6110 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6111 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6112 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6113 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6114 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6115 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6116 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6117 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6118 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6121 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
6122 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
6123 from earlier versions of Tor.
6125 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6126 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6127 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6128 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6129 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6130 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6131 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6132 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6134 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6135 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6136 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6137 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6138 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6141 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
6142 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
6143 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
6144 Closes ticket 29669.
6146 o Minor features (testing):
6147 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
6148 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
6149 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
6150 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
6152 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
6153 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6154 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6155 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6157 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6158 Closes ticket 31859.
6159 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6160 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6162 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
6163 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
6164 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6165 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
6167 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
6168 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6169 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
6170 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
6171 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6173 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
6174 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6175 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6176 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6178 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
6179 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
6180 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6182 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
6183 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6184 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6185 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6186 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6189 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
6190 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6191 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6193 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6194 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6195 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6197 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6198 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
6199 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
6201 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6202 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6203 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6204 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6206 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
6207 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6208 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6211 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6212 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
6213 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6214 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
6215 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
6217 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
6218 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
6219 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
6220 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6223 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
6224 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6225 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
6226 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
6227 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
6228 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
6231 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
6232 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
6233 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
6234 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
6236 o Major features (directory authorities):
6237 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
6238 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
6239 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
6241 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
6242 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
6243 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
6244 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6246 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
6247 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6248 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6249 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6250 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6252 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
6253 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
6254 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
6255 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
6256 Closes ticket 31779.
6258 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6259 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6260 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6261 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6263 o Minor features (geoip):
6264 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6265 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
6267 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
6268 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
6269 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
6270 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
6271 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
6272 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
6273 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
6275 o Minor features (onion services v3):
6276 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
6277 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
6280 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
6281 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
6282 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6284 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
6285 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
6286 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
6287 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6289 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6290 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6291 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
6292 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6294 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6295 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
6296 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6297 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
6298 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6299 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6300 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6301 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6302 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6303 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
6304 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6306 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
6307 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6308 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6309 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6311 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
6312 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
6313 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
6316 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
6317 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
6318 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
6320 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6321 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6322 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6323 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6325 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
6326 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
6327 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6329 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6330 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
6331 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
6332 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
6333 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
6334 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
6335 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
6337 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
6341 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
6342 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
6344 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6345 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6346 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
6347 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
6348 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
6349 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
6352 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6353 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6354 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6355 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6358 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6359 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6360 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6361 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6362 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6363 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6364 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6365 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6366 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6368 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6369 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6370 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6373 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6374 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6375 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6377 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6378 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6379 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6380 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6381 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6383 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6384 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6385 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6387 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6388 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6389 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6390 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6392 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6393 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6394 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6395 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6398 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6399 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6400 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6401 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6402 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6404 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6405 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6406 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6409 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6410 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6411 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6413 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6414 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6415 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6416 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6417 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6418 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6420 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6421 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6422 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6423 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6424 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6425 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6426 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6427 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6428 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6429 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6431 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6432 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6433 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6434 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6437 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
6438 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
6439 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
6440 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
6441 Tor's stability and ease of development.
6443 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
6444 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
6445 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
6446 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
6447 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
6448 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
6451 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6452 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6453 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
6454 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
6455 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
6456 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
6459 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
6460 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6461 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6462 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6463 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6464 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6465 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6466 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6467 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6469 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
6470 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
6471 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
6472 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
6473 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
6474 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
6475 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
6476 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
6477 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
6478 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
6479 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
6480 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
6481 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
6482 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
6483 files. Closes ticket 31175.
6485 o Minor features (build system):
6486 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
6487 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
6488 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
6490 o Minor features (compilation):
6491 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
6492 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
6493 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
6495 o Minor features (configuration):
6496 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
6497 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
6498 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
6499 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
6501 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6502 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
6503 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
6504 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
6506 o Minor features (debugging):
6507 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
6508 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
6509 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
6510 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
6512 o Minor features (git hooks):
6513 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
6514 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
6515 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
6516 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
6517 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
6519 o Minor features (git scripts):
6520 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
6521 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
6522 push. Closes ticket 31314.
6523 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
6524 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
6525 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
6526 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
6527 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
6528 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
6529 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
6530 Closes ticket 31314.
6531 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
6532 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
6533 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
6534 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
6535 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
6536 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
6537 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
6538 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
6539 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
6541 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
6542 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
6543 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
6546 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
6547 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
6548 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
6550 o Minor features (onion service v3):
6551 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
6552 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
6554 o Minor features (onion service):
6555 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
6556 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
6557 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
6558 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
6560 o Minor features (stem tests):
6561 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6562 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6565 o Minor features (testing):
6566 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
6567 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
6568 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
6569 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
6570 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
6571 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
6572 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
6573 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
6574 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
6575 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
6576 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
6578 o Minor features (token bucket):
6579 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
6580 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
6582 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
6583 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
6584 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
6585 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6586 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
6587 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
6588 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
6589 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
6592 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
6593 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6594 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6596 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
6597 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
6598 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
6599 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
6600 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
6601 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
6603 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6604 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6605 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6606 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6607 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6609 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6610 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6611 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6613 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6614 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
6615 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
6616 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
6618 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
6619 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
6620 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
6621 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
6622 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
6623 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
6624 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
6625 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
6626 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
6627 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6629 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
6630 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
6631 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
6634 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6635 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
6636 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6638 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
6639 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6640 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6641 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6642 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6643 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6644 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6645 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
6646 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
6647 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
6650 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
6651 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6652 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6653 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6656 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
6657 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
6658 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
6659 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6661 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
6662 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
6663 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
6664 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6665 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
6666 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6667 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
6668 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
6669 Closes ticket 31678.
6671 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6672 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6673 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6674 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6675 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6677 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
6678 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
6679 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
6680 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
6681 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6682 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
6683 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
6684 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
6685 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
6688 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6689 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6690 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6692 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
6693 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
6694 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
6696 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
6697 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
6698 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
6701 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
6702 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
6703 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
6704 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
6705 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
6706 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
6708 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
6709 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
6710 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
6711 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
6714 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6715 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
6716 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
6717 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
6718 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6720 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6721 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
6722 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
6723 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
6724 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
6725 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6727 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
6728 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
6729 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
6730 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6732 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6733 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6734 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6735 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
6736 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6738 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
6739 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
6740 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
6741 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6743 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
6744 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
6745 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
6746 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
6747 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6749 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
6750 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
6751 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
6752 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
6753 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
6756 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6757 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
6758 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
6761 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
6762 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6763 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6764 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6765 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6766 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6768 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
6769 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6770 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6771 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6772 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6773 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6774 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6775 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6776 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6777 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6780 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
6781 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
6782 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
6783 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
6784 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6785 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6786 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6789 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
6790 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
6791 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
6792 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
6793 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
6794 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
6796 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
6800 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
6801 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
6802 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
6803 Closes ticket 30967.
6805 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
6806 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
6807 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
6808 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
6809 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
6810 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
6811 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
6812 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
6813 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
6814 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
6815 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
6816 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
6817 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
6818 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
6819 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
6820 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
6822 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
6823 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
6824 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
6825 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
6826 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
6827 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
6828 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
6829 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
6830 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
6831 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
6833 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
6834 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
6835 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
6837 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
6838 Closes ticket 30806.
6839 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
6840 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
6843 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
6844 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
6845 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
6847 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
6848 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
6849 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6852 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6853 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6854 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6855 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6856 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6857 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6858 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6860 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6861 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6862 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6863 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6865 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
6866 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6868 o Directory authority changes:
6869 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6872 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6873 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
6874 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
6875 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6877 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
6878 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
6879 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
6880 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
6881 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
6882 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
6883 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6885 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6886 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
6887 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
6888 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6890 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
6891 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6892 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6893 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6894 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6896 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
6897 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
6898 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
6899 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
6900 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6901 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6903 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
6904 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6905 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6908 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6909 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6910 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6912 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
6913 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
6914 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
6917 o Testing (continuous integration):
6918 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6919 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6920 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6924 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
6925 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
6926 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
6927 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
6929 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6930 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6931 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6932 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6933 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6934 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6936 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6937 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6938 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6940 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6941 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6942 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6943 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6944 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6946 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6947 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6948 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6950 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
6951 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
6952 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6954 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
6955 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6956 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6957 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6959 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6960 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
6961 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
6964 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6965 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
6966 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
6969 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6970 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
6971 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
6975 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
6976 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
6977 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
6979 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
6980 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6981 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6982 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6983 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6986 o Minor features (geoip):
6987 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6988 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
6990 o Minor features (logging):
6991 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
6992 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6993 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6994 Closes ticket 30686.
6996 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
6997 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6998 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7000 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7001 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7002 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7003 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7004 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7005 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7006 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7008 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7009 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7010 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7011 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7013 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7014 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
7015 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
7016 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
7017 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7020 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7021 Closes ticket 30630.
7024 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
7025 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
7026 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
7027 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
7028 SENDME implementation.
7030 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7031 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
7032 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
7033 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
7034 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
7035 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
7036 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
7037 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
7038 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
7039 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
7040 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7042 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
7043 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
7044 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
7045 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
7046 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
7047 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7049 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
7050 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
7051 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
7052 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
7053 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7056 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
7057 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
7058 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
7059 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
7060 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
7061 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
7064 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7065 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
7066 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
7069 o Minor features (maintenance):
7070 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7071 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7072 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7074 o Minor features (testing):
7075 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7076 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7077 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7078 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7080 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7081 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7082 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7084 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7085 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7086 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7087 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7089 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7090 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
7091 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
7093 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
7094 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
7097 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7098 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7099 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7102 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7103 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7104 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7107 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7108 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7109 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7110 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7112 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7113 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7114 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7115 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7118 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7119 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7120 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7121 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7122 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7123 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7126 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
7127 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
7128 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
7129 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
7130 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
7131 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7133 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7134 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7135 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7136 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7139 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7140 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7141 Resolves issue 29702.
7144 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
7145 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
7146 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
7147 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
7148 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
7149 performance in several areas.
7151 o Major features (circuit padding):
7152 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
7153 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
7154 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
7155 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
7156 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
7157 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
7158 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
7159 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
7160 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
7162 o Major features (code organization):
7163 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
7164 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
7165 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
7166 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
7169 o Major features (controller protocol):
7170 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
7171 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
7172 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
7173 Closes ticket 30091.
7175 o Major features (flow control):
7176 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
7177 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
7178 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
7179 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
7180 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
7181 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
7182 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
7184 o Major features (performance):
7185 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
7186 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
7187 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
7189 o Major features (performance, RNG):
7190 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
7191 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
7192 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
7193 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
7194 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
7195 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
7196 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
7197 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
7199 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7200 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
7201 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
7202 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
7203 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
7205 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
7206 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
7207 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
7208 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
7211 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7212 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
7214 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
7215 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
7216 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
7217 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
7218 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7219 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
7220 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
7222 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
7223 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
7224 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
7226 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7227 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
7228 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
7230 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
7232 o Minor features (controller):
7233 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
7234 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
7235 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7237 o Minor features (debugging):
7238 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
7239 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
7240 can use format strings to include information for trouble
7241 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
7243 o Minor features (defense in depth):
7244 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
7245 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
7246 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
7247 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
7248 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
7249 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
7250 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
7251 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
7252 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
7254 o Minor features (developer tools):
7255 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
7256 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
7257 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
7258 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
7259 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
7261 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
7262 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
7264 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
7265 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
7267 o Minor features (geoip):
7268 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7269 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
7271 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
7272 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
7273 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
7275 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
7276 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
7277 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
7278 addresses. Implements 26992.
7280 o Minor features (modularity):
7281 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
7282 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
7284 o Minor features (performance):
7285 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7286 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7287 Closes ticket 28837.
7289 o Minor features (testing):
7290 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7291 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7292 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7293 Implements ticket 29732.
7294 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7295 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7297 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7298 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7300 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7301 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7302 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7303 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7304 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7305 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7307 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7308 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7309 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7310 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7312 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7313 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7314 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7315 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7316 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7317 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7318 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7319 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7320 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7321 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7322 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7323 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7324 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7325 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7326 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7327 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7328 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7329 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7331 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7332 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7333 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7334 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7336 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7337 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7338 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7339 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7340 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7342 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
7343 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7344 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7345 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7347 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7348 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7349 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7350 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7351 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7352 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7354 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7355 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7357 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7358 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7359 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7360 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7361 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7362 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7363 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7366 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7367 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7368 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7371 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7372 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7373 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7374 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7375 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7376 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7377 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7378 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7380 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7381 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7382 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7383 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7384 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7385 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7386 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7388 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7389 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7390 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7391 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7392 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7393 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7395 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7396 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7397 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7398 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7399 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7401 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7402 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7403 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7405 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7406 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7407 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7410 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7411 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7412 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7413 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7415 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7416 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7417 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7418 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7419 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7421 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7422 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7423 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7424 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7425 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7427 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7428 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7429 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7430 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7431 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7432 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7433 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7434 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7435 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7436 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7437 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7438 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7439 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7441 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7442 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7443 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7444 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7445 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7447 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7448 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7449 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7450 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7451 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7452 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7453 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7454 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7455 Resolves issue 28816.
7456 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7457 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7458 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7459 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7460 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7461 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7462 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7463 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7464 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7465 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7466 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7467 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7468 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7469 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7470 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7471 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7472 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7473 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7474 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7475 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7476 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7477 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7478 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7479 Closes ticket 29894.
7480 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7481 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7482 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7483 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7486 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7487 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7491 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7492 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7493 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7494 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7497 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7498 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7499 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7500 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7501 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7502 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7503 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7504 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7505 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7506 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7507 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7510 o Testing (chutney):
7511 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7512 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7513 Closes ticket 27251.
7516 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7517 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7518 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7519 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7520 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7521 long-term maintainability.
7523 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7524 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7525 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7526 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7528 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
7529 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7531 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7532 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7533 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7534 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7536 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7537 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7538 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7541 o Minor features (testing):
7542 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7543 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7546 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7547 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7548 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7550 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
7551 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
7552 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
7553 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7555 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7556 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
7557 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
7559 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
7560 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
7561 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7564 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
7565 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
7566 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
7567 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
7569 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7570 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7571 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7572 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7573 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7574 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7576 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7577 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7578 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7579 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7580 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7582 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7583 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7584 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7587 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7588 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
7589 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
7590 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
7591 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
7594 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7595 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7596 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7599 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7600 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7601 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7602 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7603 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7604 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7605 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7607 o Minor features (geoip):
7608 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7609 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7611 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7612 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7613 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7614 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7616 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7617 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7618 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7619 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7620 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7621 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7622 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7623 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7624 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7626 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7627 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7628 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7629 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7631 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7632 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7633 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7634 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7635 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7637 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7638 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7639 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7641 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
7642 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
7643 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
7646 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7647 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7648 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7651 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
7652 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
7653 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7655 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7656 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
7657 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7659 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7660 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
7661 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
7662 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
7663 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
7664 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
7667 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7668 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
7669 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
7670 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
7671 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7673 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7674 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7675 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7676 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7677 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7678 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7681 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7682 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7683 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7684 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7685 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7686 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7687 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7688 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7690 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7691 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7692 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7693 Resolves issue 28816.
7694 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7695 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7698 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7699 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7702 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
7703 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
7704 bugs from earlier versions.
7706 o Minor features (address selection):
7707 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7708 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7709 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7710 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7711 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7712 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7713 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7715 o Minor features (geoip):
7716 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7717 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
7719 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
7720 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7721 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
7722 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7724 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7725 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7726 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7727 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7728 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7729 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7730 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7731 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7732 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7733 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7734 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7736 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7737 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7738 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7739 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7741 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
7742 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7743 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7745 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7746 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
7747 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
7750 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
7751 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
7752 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7754 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7755 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7756 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7757 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7758 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7759 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7760 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7762 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7763 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7764 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7767 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7768 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7769 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7770 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7771 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7772 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7773 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7774 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7775 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
7776 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7778 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7779 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7780 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7781 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7782 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7783 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7786 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7787 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7788 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7791 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7792 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7793 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7795 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7796 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7797 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7798 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7799 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7800 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7801 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7802 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7804 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7805 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7806 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7807 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7808 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7810 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7811 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7812 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7813 Patches from "Mangix".
7815 o Minor features (geoip):
7816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7817 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7819 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7820 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7823 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7824 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7825 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7826 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7827 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7828 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7830 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7831 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7832 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7833 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7836 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7837 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7838 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7839 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7841 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7842 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7843 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7846 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7847 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7848 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7849 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7851 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7852 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7853 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7854 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7856 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7857 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7858 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7859 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7860 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7861 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7863 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7864 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7865 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7866 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7867 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7869 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7870 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7871 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7872 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7873 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7875 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7876 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7877 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7879 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7880 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7881 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7883 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7884 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7885 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7886 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7888 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7889 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7890 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7892 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7893 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7894 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7895 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7896 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7899 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7900 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7901 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7902 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7903 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7906 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
7907 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
7908 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
7909 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
7910 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7912 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7913 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7914 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7915 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7916 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7917 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7918 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7919 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7921 o Minor features (geoip):
7922 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7923 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7925 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7926 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7927 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7928 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7930 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7931 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7932 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7933 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7934 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7937 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
7938 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7939 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7940 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7942 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
7943 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
7944 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
7945 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7947 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7948 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7949 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7950 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7951 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7952 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7953 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7954 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7956 o Minor features (geoip):
7957 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7958 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7960 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7961 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7962 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7963 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7965 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7966 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7967 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7968 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7969 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7972 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
7973 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
7974 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
7975 backward compatibility.
7977 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7978 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7979 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7981 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7982 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7983 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7984 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7985 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7986 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7987 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7988 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7990 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7991 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7992 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7993 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7994 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7996 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
7997 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
7998 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
7999 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
8000 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
8001 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
8002 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8004 o Minor features (compilation):
8005 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8006 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8007 Patches from "Mangix".
8009 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8010 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
8011 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
8012 release. Closes ticket 27761.
8013 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
8014 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
8015 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
8018 o Minor features (directory authority):
8019 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
8020 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
8021 Closes ticket 26698.
8023 o Minor features (geoip):
8024 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8025 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8027 o Minor features (testing):
8028 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8031 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
8032 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8033 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8034 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8036 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8037 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
8038 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8039 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
8040 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8042 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8043 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8044 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8045 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8047 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
8048 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
8049 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
8051 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8052 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
8053 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8054 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8055 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8056 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8057 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8059 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8060 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8061 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8062 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8063 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8065 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8066 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8067 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8069 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8070 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8071 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8073 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8074 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8075 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8076 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8078 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
8079 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
8080 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
8081 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
8082 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
8085 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
8086 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
8087 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8088 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
8089 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
8090 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
8091 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8092 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8093 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8094 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8095 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8099 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
8100 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
8101 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
8104 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
8107 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
8108 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
8109 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
8110 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
8111 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
8112 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
8115 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
8116 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
8117 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
8118 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
8119 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
8120 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
8122 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
8123 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
8125 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
8126 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
8129 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
8130 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
8131 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
8132 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
8133 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
8134 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
8135 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
8136 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
8137 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
8140 o Major features (circuit padding):
8141 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
8142 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
8143 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
8144 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
8145 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
8146 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
8147 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
8148 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
8151 o Major features (refactoring):
8152 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
8153 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
8154 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
8155 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
8158 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
8159 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
8160 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
8161 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
8162 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
8165 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8166 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
8169 o Minor features (controller):
8170 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
8171 Implements ticket 28843.
8173 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8174 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
8175 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
8176 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
8178 o Minor features (directory authority):
8179 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
8180 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
8181 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
8182 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
8185 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
8186 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
8187 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
8188 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
8189 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
8190 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
8191 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
8193 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8194 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
8195 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
8197 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
8198 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
8199 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
8200 Closes ticket 28518.
8202 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
8203 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
8204 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
8205 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
8207 o Minor features (IPv6):
8208 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
8209 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
8210 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
8211 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
8212 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
8213 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8214 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
8215 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
8216 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
8217 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8219 o Minor features (log messages):
8220 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
8221 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
8224 o Minor features (memory usage):
8225 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
8226 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
8227 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
8228 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
8229 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
8231 o Minor features (parsing):
8232 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
8233 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
8234 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
8236 o Minor features (performance):
8237 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
8238 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
8239 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
8240 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
8242 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
8243 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
8244 Closes ticket 28852.
8245 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
8246 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
8247 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
8248 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
8249 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
8250 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
8252 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
8253 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
8254 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
8255 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
8256 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
8258 o Minor features (process management):
8259 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
8260 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
8261 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
8262 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
8263 module. Closes ticket 28847.
8265 o Minor features (relay):
8266 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
8267 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
8268 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
8270 o Minor features (required protocols):
8271 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
8272 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
8273 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
8274 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
8275 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
8276 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
8277 297; closes ticket 27735.
8279 o Minor features (testing):
8280 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
8281 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
8283 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
8284 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
8285 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8286 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8287 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8290 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8291 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8292 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8293 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8295 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
8296 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8297 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8299 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
8300 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
8301 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
8302 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8304 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
8305 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
8306 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
8307 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
8308 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
8310 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
8311 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
8312 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
8313 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
8314 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
8315 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
8316 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
8319 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8320 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8321 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8324 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8325 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8326 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8327 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8328 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8329 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8331 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8332 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
8333 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
8334 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8336 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
8337 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8338 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8339 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8340 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8341 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8343 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
8344 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
8345 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
8346 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8348 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8349 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
8350 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
8351 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
8352 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8354 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8355 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
8356 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
8357 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
8358 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8360 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8361 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8362 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8363 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8364 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8366 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8367 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
8368 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
8369 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
8371 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
8372 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
8373 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
8374 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
8375 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
8376 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
8377 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
8378 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
8382 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
8383 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
8384 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
8385 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
8387 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
8390 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
8391 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
8392 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
8393 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
8394 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
8395 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
8396 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
8399 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
8401 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
8402 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
8404 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
8405 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
8406 code from client and service into one function. Closes
8409 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8410 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
8412 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
8413 Resolves ticket 28006.
8414 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
8415 Resolves ticket 28012.
8416 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
8417 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
8418 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
8419 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
8423 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8424 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8425 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8426 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8427 to this version, or to a later series.
8429 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8430 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8431 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8432 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8433 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8434 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8436 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8437 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8438 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8439 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8440 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8443 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8444 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8445 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8446 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8448 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8449 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8450 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8451 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8452 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8453 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8454 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8455 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8457 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8458 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8459 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8460 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8462 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8463 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8464 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8465 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8466 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8468 o Minor features (geoip):
8469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8470 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8472 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8473 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8474 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8475 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8476 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8477 Closes ticket 28973.
8479 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8480 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8481 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8482 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8484 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8485 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8486 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8489 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8490 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8491 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8493 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8494 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8495 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8496 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8498 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8499 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8500 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8501 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8503 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8504 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8505 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8506 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8507 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8508 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8511 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8512 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8513 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8516 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8517 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8518 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8519 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8520 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8522 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8523 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8524 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8525 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8526 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8528 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8529 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8530 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8531 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8532 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8533 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8535 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8536 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8537 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8540 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8541 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8542 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8544 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8545 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8546 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8548 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8549 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8550 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8553 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8554 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8555 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8556 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8557 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8558 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8559 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8560 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8562 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8563 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8564 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8565 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8567 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8568 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8569 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8570 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8571 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8572 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8573 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8574 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8575 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8576 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8578 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8579 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8580 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8581 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8582 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8583 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8585 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8586 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8587 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8588 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8589 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8591 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8592 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8593 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8596 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8597 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8598 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8599 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8602 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8603 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8604 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8607 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8608 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8609 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8610 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8611 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8614 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8615 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8616 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8617 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8618 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8619 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8620 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8622 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8623 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8624 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8627 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8628 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8629 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8630 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8631 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8634 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8635 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8636 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8637 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8638 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8640 o Minor features (geoip):
8641 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8642 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8644 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8645 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8646 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8647 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8648 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8649 Closes ticket 28973.
8651 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8652 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8653 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8654 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8656 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8657 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8658 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8659 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8660 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8663 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8664 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8665 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8666 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8668 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8669 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8670 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8672 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8673 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8674 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8675 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8677 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8678 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8679 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8680 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8681 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8682 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8685 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8686 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8687 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8689 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8690 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8691 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8692 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8693 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8695 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8696 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8697 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8698 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8699 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8700 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8702 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8703 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8704 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8705 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8707 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8708 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8709 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8712 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8713 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8714 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8715 affecting directory caches.
8717 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8718 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8719 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8720 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8721 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8722 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8723 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8724 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8726 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8727 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8728 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8729 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8730 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8731 so it will recognize them.
8733 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8734 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8735 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8736 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8737 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8738 with the latest stable release.)
8740 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
8741 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8743 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
8744 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8745 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8746 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8747 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8748 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8749 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8751 o Minor features (compilation):
8752 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8753 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8755 o Minor features (geoip):
8756 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8757 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8759 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8760 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8761 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8762 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8763 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8764 Closes ticket 28973.
8766 o Minor features (performance):
8767 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8768 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8769 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8770 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8771 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8772 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8773 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8774 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8775 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8776 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8778 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8779 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
8780 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8782 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8783 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8784 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8785 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8786 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8788 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8789 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
8790 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
8791 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8792 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8793 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8794 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8796 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
8797 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
8798 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
8800 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8801 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
8802 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
8806 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
8807 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
8808 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
8809 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
8811 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8812 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8813 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8816 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8817 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8818 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8819 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8820 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8822 o Minor features (geoip):
8823 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8824 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
8826 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8827 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
8828 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8830 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8831 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8832 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8833 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8835 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8836 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8837 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8838 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8839 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8840 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8842 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
8843 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
8844 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
8847 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8848 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
8849 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
8850 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8851 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
8852 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8853 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8855 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8856 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
8857 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
8858 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
8859 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
8860 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
8861 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
8862 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
8864 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
8865 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
8866 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
8867 reported by Keifer Bly.
8870 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
8871 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
8873 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
8874 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
8875 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
8876 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
8877 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
8878 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
8879 Closes ticket 19566.
8881 o Documentation (onion services):
8882 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
8883 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
8884 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
8885 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
8886 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
8887 process. Closes ticket 28275.
8890 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
8891 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
8892 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
8895 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8896 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8897 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8898 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8899 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8902 o Minor features (geoip):
8903 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8904 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8906 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8907 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8908 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8909 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8911 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8912 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8913 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8914 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8915 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8918 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8919 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8920 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8921 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8923 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8924 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8925 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8927 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8928 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
8929 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8931 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8932 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8933 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8936 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8937 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8938 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8941 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8942 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8943 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8945 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8946 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8947 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
8948 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8949 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8950 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8951 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8952 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8953 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8954 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8957 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
8958 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
8959 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
8960 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
8961 acceptable long-term-support release.
8963 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8964 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8965 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8966 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8967 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8968 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8970 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8971 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8972 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8973 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8974 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8976 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8977 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8979 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8980 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8982 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
8983 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8984 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8986 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
8987 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8988 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8991 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8992 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
8993 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8995 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
8996 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
8997 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
9000 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9001 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
9002 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
9005 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9006 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9007 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
9008 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9010 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9011 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
9012 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
9013 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
9016 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
9017 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
9018 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
9019 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9021 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9022 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
9023 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
9024 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
9025 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
9026 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
9027 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9029 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9030 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
9031 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
9034 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
9035 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
9038 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9039 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9040 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9041 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9042 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9044 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
9045 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9046 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9047 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9048 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9049 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9051 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9052 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9053 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9054 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9055 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9057 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9058 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
9059 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9061 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
9062 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9063 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9064 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9065 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9067 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
9068 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9069 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9072 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9073 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9074 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9075 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9076 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9078 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9079 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9080 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9082 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9083 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9084 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9085 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9086 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9088 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9089 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9090 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9091 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9092 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9095 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9096 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9097 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9098 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9100 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9101 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9102 Implements ticket 27252.
9103 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9104 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9105 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9106 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9107 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9108 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9109 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9111 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9112 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9113 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9114 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9116 o Minor features (geoip):
9117 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9118 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9120 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9121 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9122 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9123 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9124 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9126 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9127 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9128 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9129 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9130 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9133 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9134 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9135 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9138 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9139 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9140 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9141 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9142 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9144 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9145 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9146 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9148 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9149 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9150 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9152 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9153 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9154 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9155 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9157 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9158 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9159 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9161 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9162 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9163 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9166 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9167 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9168 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9170 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9171 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9172 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9175 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9176 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9177 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9178 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9179 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9181 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9182 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9183 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9184 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9185 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9186 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9188 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9189 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9190 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9193 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9194 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9195 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9196 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9197 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9198 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9199 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9200 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9202 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9203 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9204 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9205 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9207 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9208 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9209 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9210 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9211 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9213 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9214 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9215 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9216 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9217 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9218 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9220 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9221 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9222 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9223 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9224 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9225 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9227 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9228 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9229 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9230 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9233 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9234 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9235 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9236 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9237 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9240 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
9241 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
9242 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
9243 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
9244 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
9245 getting closer and closer to stability.
9247 o Major features (onion services):
9248 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
9249 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
9250 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
9251 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
9252 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
9254 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
9255 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9256 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9258 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
9259 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
9260 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
9261 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9263 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
9264 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9265 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9266 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9267 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9269 o Major bugfixes (relay):
9270 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9271 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9272 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9273 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9276 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9277 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9278 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9279 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9280 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
9281 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
9284 o Minor features (geoip):
9285 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9286 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9288 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
9289 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9290 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9293 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9294 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
9295 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
9296 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
9297 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
9298 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
9301 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
9302 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
9305 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
9306 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9307 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9308 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9309 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9311 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
9312 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9313 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9314 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9315 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9316 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9319 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9320 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
9321 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9323 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9324 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
9325 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
9327 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
9328 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
9329 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9331 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9332 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
9333 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
9335 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9336 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9337 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9338 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9339 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9340 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9341 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9342 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9343 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9345 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
9346 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9347 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9350 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9351 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9352 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9353 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9355 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
9356 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9358 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9359 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9360 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9361 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9362 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9363 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9364 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9365 Closes ticket 27814.
9366 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9367 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9368 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9369 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9370 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9371 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9374 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9375 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9376 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9377 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9380 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
9381 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
9382 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
9383 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
9385 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
9386 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
9387 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
9388 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
9389 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
9390 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
9392 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
9393 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
9394 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
9395 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
9396 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
9399 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
9400 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9401 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9402 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9403 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9405 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9406 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9407 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9408 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9409 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9412 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9413 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9414 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9415 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9416 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9418 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9419 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
9420 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
9421 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
9423 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
9424 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
9425 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
9428 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
9429 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9430 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9431 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9433 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9434 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
9435 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
9436 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9438 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9439 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9440 Closes ticket 27799.
9443 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
9444 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
9445 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
9446 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
9447 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
9449 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
9450 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
9451 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
9452 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
9453 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
9454 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
9456 o Major features (relay, UI change):
9457 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
9458 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
9459 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
9460 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
9461 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9462 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
9463 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
9465 o Major features (bootstrap):
9466 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
9467 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
9468 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
9469 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
9471 o Major features (new code layout):
9472 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
9473 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
9474 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
9475 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
9476 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
9477 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
9478 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
9480 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
9481 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
9482 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
9484 o Major features (onion services v3):
9485 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
9486 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
9487 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
9488 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
9489 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
9490 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
9491 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
9492 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
9493 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
9494 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
9495 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
9496 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
9497 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
9499 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
9500 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
9501 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
9502 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
9503 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
9504 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
9505 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
9507 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
9508 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
9509 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
9510 (if present), and restart Tor.
9512 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9513 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
9514 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
9515 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
9518 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
9519 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9520 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9521 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9523 o Minor features (admin tools):
9524 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
9525 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
9528 o Minor features (build):
9529 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
9530 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
9531 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
9532 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
9534 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
9535 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
9536 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
9537 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
9538 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
9540 o Minor features (code layout):
9541 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
9542 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
9543 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
9544 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
9547 o Minor features (compilation):
9548 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
9549 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
9550 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
9551 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
9554 o Minor features (config):
9555 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
9558 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9559 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9560 Implements ticket 27252.
9561 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9562 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9563 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9564 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9565 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9566 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9567 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9568 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9569 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9571 o Minor features (controller):
9572 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
9573 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
9574 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
9575 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
9576 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
9577 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
9578 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
9579 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
9581 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
9582 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
9583 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
9584 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
9586 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
9587 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
9588 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
9589 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9591 o Minor features (development):
9592 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
9593 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
9595 o Minor features (directory authority):
9596 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
9597 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
9598 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
9599 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
9601 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
9602 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
9605 o Minor features (embedding API):
9606 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
9607 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
9608 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
9609 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
9610 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
9611 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
9614 o Minor features (geoip):
9615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9616 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
9618 o Minor features (memory management):
9619 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
9620 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
9623 o Minor features (memory usage):
9624 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
9625 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
9626 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
9628 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
9629 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
9630 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
9632 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
9633 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
9634 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
9635 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
9637 o Minor features (testing):
9638 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
9639 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
9641 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
9642 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
9643 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
9645 o Minor features (UI):
9646 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
9647 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
9648 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
9649 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
9650 Closes ticket 26703.
9652 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
9653 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
9654 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
9655 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9657 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9658 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
9659 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
9660 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9661 - Use time_t for all values in
9662 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
9663 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
9664 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9666 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
9667 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
9668 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
9669 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
9670 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
9673 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
9674 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
9675 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
9676 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
9677 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
9678 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9680 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
9681 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
9682 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
9683 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9685 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
9686 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
9687 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
9688 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
9689 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
9691 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9692 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9693 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9695 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9696 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
9697 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
9698 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
9699 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
9702 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
9703 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9704 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9706 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9707 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9708 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9711 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
9712 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
9713 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
9714 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
9715 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9717 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9718 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
9719 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
9720 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
9721 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9722 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
9723 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
9725 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
9726 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
9727 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
9728 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
9729 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9731 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
9732 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9733 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9735 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
9736 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
9737 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
9738 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
9741 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9742 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9743 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9746 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
9747 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
9748 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
9749 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
9750 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
9752 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
9753 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
9754 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
9755 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
9757 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9758 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9759 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9760 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9762 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
9763 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
9764 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
9765 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
9766 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
9767 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9768 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9769 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
9770 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
9771 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9773 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
9774 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9775 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9776 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9777 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9778 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9779 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9780 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9782 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9783 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
9784 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9785 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9786 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9787 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9788 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9789 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9790 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
9791 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
9792 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9793 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
9794 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9796 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9797 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9798 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9799 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9800 directory within the top-level src directory.
9801 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9802 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9803 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9804 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9805 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9806 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9807 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9808 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9809 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9810 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9811 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9812 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9813 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9814 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9815 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9816 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9817 Closes ticket 21349.
9818 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9819 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9820 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9821 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9822 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9823 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9824 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9826 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9827 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9828 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9831 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9832 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9833 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9834 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9835 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9838 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9839 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9840 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9841 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9842 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9843 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9844 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9845 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9846 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9847 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9848 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9849 Closes ticket 26367.
9852 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9853 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9855 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9856 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9857 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9858 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9860 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9861 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9863 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9864 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9865 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9866 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9868 o Minor features (geoip):
9869 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9870 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9872 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9873 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9874 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9875 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9877 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9878 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9879 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9880 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9881 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9882 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9883 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9884 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9887 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9888 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9889 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9890 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9892 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9893 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9894 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9895 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9897 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9898 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9899 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9900 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9902 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9903 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9904 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9905 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9906 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9908 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9909 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9910 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9913 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9914 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9915 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9916 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9917 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9919 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9920 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9921 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9924 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9925 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9926 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9927 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9929 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9930 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9931 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9933 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9934 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9935 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9938 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9939 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9940 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9941 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9942 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9944 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9945 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9946 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9949 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9950 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9952 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9953 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9954 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9955 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9957 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9958 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9960 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9961 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9962 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9963 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9965 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9966 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9969 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9970 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9971 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9972 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9974 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9975 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9976 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9977 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9979 o Minor features (geoip):
9980 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9981 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9983 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9984 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9985 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9986 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9987 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9988 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9989 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9991 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9992 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9993 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9994 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9995 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9996 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9997 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9998 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10001 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10002 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10003 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10004 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10006 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10007 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10008 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10009 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10011 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10012 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10013 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10014 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10015 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10017 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10018 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10019 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10020 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10021 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10023 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10024 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10025 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10028 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10029 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10030 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10031 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10032 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10034 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10035 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10036 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10039 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10040 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10041 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10044 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10045 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10046 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10049 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10050 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10052 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10053 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10054 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10055 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10057 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10058 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10059 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10060 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10062 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10063 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10064 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10066 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10067 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10068 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10069 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10070 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10071 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10072 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10075 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10076 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
10077 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
10078 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
10079 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10081 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10082 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10083 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10084 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10085 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10087 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10088 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10089 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10092 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
10093 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10095 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10096 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10097 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10098 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10100 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10101 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10102 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10103 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10105 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10106 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10107 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10109 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10110 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10111 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10112 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10114 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10115 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10118 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10119 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10120 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10121 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10123 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10124 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10125 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10126 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10128 o Minor features (geoip):
10129 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10130 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10132 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10133 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10134 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10135 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10136 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10137 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10138 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10140 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10141 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10142 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10143 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10144 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10145 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10146 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10147 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10150 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10151 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10152 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10153 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10155 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10156 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10157 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10158 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10160 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10161 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10162 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10163 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10164 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10166 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10167 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10168 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10169 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10170 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10172 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10173 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10174 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10177 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10178 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10179 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10180 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10182 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10183 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10184 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10185 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10186 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10188 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10189 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10190 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10193 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10194 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10195 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10198 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10199 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10200 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10203 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10204 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10205 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10206 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10208 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10209 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10210 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10213 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10214 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10216 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10217 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10218 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10219 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10220 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10221 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10222 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10224 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10225 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10226 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10227 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10228 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10230 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10231 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10232 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10233 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10235 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10236 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10237 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10239 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10240 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10241 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10242 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10243 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10244 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10245 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10248 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10249 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10250 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10251 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10252 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10254 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10255 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10256 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10257 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10258 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10260 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10261 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10262 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10265 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
10266 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
10267 compilation and portability fixes.
10269 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
10270 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
10271 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
10272 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
10273 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
10274 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
10275 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
10276 our anti-denial-of-service code.
10278 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
10279 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10281 o Minor features (compatibility):
10282 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10283 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10284 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10286 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10287 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
10288 Implements ticket 27449.
10289 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
10290 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
10293 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10294 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10295 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10296 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10297 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10298 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10299 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10300 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10303 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10304 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
10305 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
10306 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
10307 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
10308 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10309 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10310 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10311 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10312 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10314 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10315 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10316 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10319 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10320 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10321 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10322 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10323 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10324 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10325 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10328 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
10329 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10330 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10331 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10332 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10334 o Minor features (bug workaround):
10335 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10336 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10337 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10339 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10340 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10341 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10343 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10344 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10345 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
10346 Implements ticket 27275.
10347 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10348 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10350 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
10351 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10354 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10355 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10356 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10357 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10359 o Minor features (geoip):
10360 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10361 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10363 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
10364 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10365 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10366 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10368 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10369 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
10370 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
10371 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
10372 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10373 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10374 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10375 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10377 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
10378 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10379 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10380 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10382 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10383 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10384 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10385 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10386 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10388 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10389 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10390 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10393 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10394 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10395 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10398 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10399 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10401 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10402 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10403 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10404 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10405 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10406 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10407 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10409 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10410 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10411 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10412 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10413 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10415 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10416 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10417 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10418 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10419 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10421 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10422 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10423 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10424 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10425 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10427 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10428 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10429 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10432 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
10433 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10434 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10435 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10436 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10438 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
10439 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
10440 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
10441 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
10442 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
10443 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10445 o Minor features (compilation):
10446 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10447 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10449 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10450 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10451 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10452 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10453 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10454 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10456 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10457 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10458 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10459 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10461 o Minor features (controller):
10462 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10463 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10464 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10466 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10467 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10468 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10471 o Minor features (geoip):
10472 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10473 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10475 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
10476 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
10478 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10479 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
10480 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10481 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10482 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10483 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10484 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10486 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10487 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
10488 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10489 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
10490 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
10491 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10493 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10494 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10495 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10498 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
10499 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10500 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10502 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10503 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10504 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10507 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10508 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
10509 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10510 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10511 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10512 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10514 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10515 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10516 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10517 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10519 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10520 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10521 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10523 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
10524 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
10525 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
10526 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
10527 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
10528 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
10530 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10531 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10532 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10533 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10534 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10537 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
10538 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10539 bridge relays should upgrade.
10541 o Directory authority changes:
10542 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10543 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10544 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10547 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10548 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10549 bridge relays should upgrade.
10551 o Directory authority changes:
10552 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10553 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10554 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10557 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10558 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10559 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10562 o Directory authority changes:
10563 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10564 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10565 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10567 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10568 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10569 Closes ticket 26343.
10571 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10572 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10573 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10574 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10575 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10577 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10578 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10579 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10581 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10582 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10583 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10584 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10586 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10587 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10588 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10590 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10591 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10592 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10593 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10594 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10595 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10597 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10598 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10599 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10600 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10602 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10603 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10604 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10607 o Minor features (geoip):
10608 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10609 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10611 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10612 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10613 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10614 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10615 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10617 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10618 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10619 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10621 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10622 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10623 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10624 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10625 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10626 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10627 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10628 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10631 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10632 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10633 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10634 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10635 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10636 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10638 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10639 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10640 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10641 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10642 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10644 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10645 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10646 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10647 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10648 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10650 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10651 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10652 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10655 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10656 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10657 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10659 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10660 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10661 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10662 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10664 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10665 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10666 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10667 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10668 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10669 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10670 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10672 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10673 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10674 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10675 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10678 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10679 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10680 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10682 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10683 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10684 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10686 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10687 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10688 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10689 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10692 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10693 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10694 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10695 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10697 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10698 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10699 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10701 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10702 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10703 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10706 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10707 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10708 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10711 o Directory authority changes:
10712 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10713 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10714 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10716 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10717 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10718 Closes ticket 26343.
10720 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10721 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10722 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10723 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10724 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10726 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10727 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10728 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10729 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10731 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10732 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10733 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10734 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10735 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10736 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10738 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10739 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10740 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10743 o Minor features (geoip):
10744 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10745 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10747 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10748 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10749 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10750 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10751 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10753 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10754 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10755 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10757 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10758 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10759 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10760 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10763 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10764 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10765 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10766 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10767 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10768 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10770 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10771 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10772 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10773 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10774 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10776 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10777 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10778 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10781 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10782 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10783 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10785 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10786 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10787 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10788 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10790 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10791 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10792 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10794 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10795 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10796 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10799 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
10800 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10801 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10802 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10803 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10805 o Minor features (compilation):
10806 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10807 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10810 o Minor features (geoip):
10811 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10812 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10814 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
10815 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
10817 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10818 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10819 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10820 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10821 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10823 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10824 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
10825 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10826 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10827 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10828 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10830 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10831 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10832 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10835 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
10836 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10837 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10839 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
10840 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10841 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10842 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10843 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10844 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10845 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10846 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10850 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10851 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10852 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10854 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10855 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10856 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10857 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10859 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10860 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10861 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10864 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10865 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10866 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10869 o Minor features (geoip):
10870 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10871 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10873 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10874 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10875 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10876 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10878 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10879 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10880 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10881 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10882 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10885 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10886 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10887 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10888 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10889 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10891 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10892 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10893 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10894 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10896 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10897 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10898 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10900 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10901 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10902 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10903 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10906 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10907 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10908 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10909 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10911 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10912 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10913 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10914 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10915 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10916 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10917 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10918 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10922 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
10923 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
10924 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
10926 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10927 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10928 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10929 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10931 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
10932 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10933 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10936 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
10937 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
10938 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
10939 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
10941 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
10942 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10943 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10944 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10946 o Minor features (unit tests):
10947 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
10948 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
10949 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
10952 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10953 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
10954 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
10955 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10956 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
10957 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
10958 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10959 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
10960 Closes ticket 26245.
10962 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10963 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10964 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10965 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10966 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10967 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10969 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10970 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10971 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10972 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10975 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10976 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
10977 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10978 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
10979 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
10980 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
10981 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
10982 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
10983 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10984 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
10985 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
10986 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
10987 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
10988 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10991 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10992 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10993 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10995 o Directory authority changes:
10996 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10997 Closes ticket 26343.
10999 o Minor features (geoip):
11000 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11001 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11003 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11004 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11005 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11006 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11007 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11008 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11010 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11011 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11012 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11014 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11015 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11016 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11017 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11018 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11020 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11021 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11022 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11024 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11025 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
11026 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
11027 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
11028 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
11029 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11032 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
11033 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
11034 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
11036 o Directory authority changes:
11037 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11038 Closes ticket 26343.
11040 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
11041 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11042 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11043 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11044 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11046 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11047 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
11048 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
11049 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
11051 o Minor features (geoip):
11052 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11053 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11055 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
11056 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11057 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11058 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11059 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11060 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11062 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11063 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11064 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11065 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
11066 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11067 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
11068 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
11069 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11071 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11072 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
11073 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
11074 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
11077 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11078 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11079 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11080 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11081 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11083 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
11084 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11085 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11087 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11088 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
11089 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11091 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
11092 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
11093 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
11094 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
11098 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
11099 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
11100 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11102 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
11103 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
11104 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
11105 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
11106 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
11107 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
11109 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
11110 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11112 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11113 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11114 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11115 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11116 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11118 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
11119 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11120 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11121 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11122 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11124 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11125 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
11126 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
11127 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11129 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11130 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
11131 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
11132 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11134 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11135 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11136 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11138 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11139 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
11140 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11143 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11144 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11145 Closes ticket 26006.
11147 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11148 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11149 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11150 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11151 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11152 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11154 o Minor features (geoip):
11155 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11156 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11158 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11159 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11160 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11163 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11164 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11165 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11166 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11167 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11169 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11170 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11171 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11172 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11173 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11176 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11177 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11178 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11180 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11181 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11182 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11183 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11184 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11185 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11186 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11188 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11189 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11190 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11192 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11193 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11194 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11197 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
11198 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
11199 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
11200 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
11201 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
11202 other small features and bugfixes.
11204 o New system requirements:
11205 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
11206 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
11207 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
11208 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
11210 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
11211 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
11212 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
11213 To disable the module, the configure option
11214 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
11215 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
11217 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
11218 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
11219 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
11220 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
11221 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
11222 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
11223 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
11224 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
11225 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
11226 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
11227 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
11229 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
11230 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
11231 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
11232 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
11233 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
11234 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
11235 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
11236 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
11237 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
11238 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
11239 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
11240 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
11241 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
11242 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
11243 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
11244 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
11245 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
11246 Tor's uptime (26009).
11248 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
11249 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11250 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11251 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11252 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11254 o Major bugfixes (crash):
11255 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
11256 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
11257 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11259 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11260 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
11261 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
11262 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11264 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
11265 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11266 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11268 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
11269 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
11270 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
11271 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
11272 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
11273 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
11274 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
11275 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
11276 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
11277 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
11278 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
11279 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
11280 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
11281 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11283 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
11284 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
11285 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11288 o Minor features (accounting):
11289 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
11290 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
11291 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
11292 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
11294 o Minor features (code quality):
11295 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
11296 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
11297 Closes ticket 25024.
11299 o Minor features (compatibility):
11300 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
11301 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
11302 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
11303 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11304 Closes ticket 26006.
11306 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
11307 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
11308 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
11309 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
11310 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
11311 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
11313 o Minor features (configuration):
11314 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
11315 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
11316 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
11317 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
11318 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
11320 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11321 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11322 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11323 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11324 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11325 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11327 o Minor features (control port):
11328 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
11329 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
11330 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
11331 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11332 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
11333 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
11334 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
11335 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
11336 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
11337 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
11339 o Minor features (directory authority):
11340 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
11341 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
11342 Closes ticket 23909.
11344 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
11345 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
11346 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
11347 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
11349 o Minor features (entry guards):
11350 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
11351 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
11353 o Minor features (geoip):
11354 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11355 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11357 o Minor features (performance):
11358 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
11359 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
11360 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
11361 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
11363 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
11364 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
11366 o Minor features (testing):
11367 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
11368 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
11369 more deterministic.
11370 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
11371 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
11372 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
11373 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
11374 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
11375 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
11377 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
11378 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
11379 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
11380 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
11381 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
11383 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
11384 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
11385 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
11386 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
11387 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
11388 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
11390 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11391 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
11392 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
11393 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
11395 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
11396 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11397 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11398 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11399 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11402 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11403 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11404 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11407 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
11408 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
11409 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11410 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
11411 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
11413 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
11414 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
11415 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
11416 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
11417 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11419 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11420 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
11421 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
11422 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
11423 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11425 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
11426 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
11427 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
11428 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
11429 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11431 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11432 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
11433 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11434 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
11435 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
11436 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
11439 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11440 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11441 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11442 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11443 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11446 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
11447 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
11448 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
11449 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
11450 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
11451 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
11452 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
11454 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11455 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11456 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11458 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
11459 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11460 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11461 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11462 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11463 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11464 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11466 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11467 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
11468 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
11469 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
11470 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
11471 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11473 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11474 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
11475 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
11478 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
11479 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
11480 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
11481 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11483 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
11484 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
11485 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
11486 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
11487 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
11488 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
11489 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
11491 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
11492 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11493 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11495 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
11496 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
11497 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
11498 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11500 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11501 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
11502 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
11503 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
11504 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
11505 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11506 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
11507 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
11509 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
11510 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
11511 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11512 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
11513 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
11514 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
11515 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
11517 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
11518 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
11519 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
11520 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
11521 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
11523 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
11524 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
11525 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
11528 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
11529 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
11530 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
11531 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
11532 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
11533 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11535 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11536 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
11537 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
11538 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
11539 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
11540 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
11541 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
11542 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
11544 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
11545 confusing we renamed some functions and
11546 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
11547 router_should_check_reachability() and
11548 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
11549 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
11550 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
11551 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
11552 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
11554 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
11555 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
11557 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
11558 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
11559 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11560 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
11561 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
11562 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
11563 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
11564 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
11565 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
11566 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
11567 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
11568 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
11569 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
11570 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
11571 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
11572 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11573 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
11574 Closes ticket 25766.
11575 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
11576 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
11577 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
11578 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
11579 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
11580 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
11581 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
11582 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
11583 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
11584 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
11585 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11586 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
11587 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
11588 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
11590 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
11591 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
11592 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
11593 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
11594 before. Closes ticket 26016.
11595 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
11596 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
11597 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
11598 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
11600 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
11601 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
11602 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
11603 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11605 o Deprecated features:
11606 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
11607 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
11608 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
11609 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
11610 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
11611 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
11614 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11615 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11617 o Removed features:
11618 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
11619 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
11620 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
11621 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
11622 24378 and proposal 290.
11623 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
11624 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
11625 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
11626 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
11627 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
11628 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
11629 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
11630 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
11631 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
11632 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
11633 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
11634 their local router. Closes 25409.
11635 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
11636 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
11637 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
11638 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
11639 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
11640 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
11641 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
11642 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
11643 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
11644 Closes ticket 25268.
11647 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
11648 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
11649 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
11651 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
11652 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
11653 be nearly identical to this one.
11655 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
11656 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
11657 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
11658 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
11659 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
11660 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11662 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
11663 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
11664 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
11665 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
11666 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
11667 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
11668 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
11670 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
11671 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
11672 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
11674 o Minor features (config options):
11675 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
11676 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
11677 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
11680 o Minor features (geoip):
11681 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11682 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
11684 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11685 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
11686 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
11687 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
11688 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
11689 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11691 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11692 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
11693 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
11694 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11696 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
11697 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
11698 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
11699 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11700 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
11701 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
11702 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11704 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11705 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11706 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11707 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11708 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11709 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
11710 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11712 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11713 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11714 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11715 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11716 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11718 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11719 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
11720 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
11722 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
11723 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
11724 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
11726 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11727 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11728 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11730 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11731 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11732 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11736 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
11737 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
11738 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
11739 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
11741 o New system requirements:
11742 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
11743 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
11745 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
11746 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
11747 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
11748 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
11749 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11751 o Minor features (geoip):
11752 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11753 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
11755 o Minor features (log messages):
11756 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
11757 information about memory usage from the different compression
11758 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
11760 o Minor features (sandbox):
11761 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11762 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11763 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11765 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11766 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11767 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11768 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11770 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
11771 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
11772 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11774 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11775 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11776 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11777 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11779 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
11780 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
11781 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
11782 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11784 o Major bugfixes (networking):
11785 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
11786 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
11787 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
11789 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11790 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11791 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11793 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11794 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
11795 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
11796 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
11797 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
11798 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11800 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11801 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11802 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11803 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11805 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
11806 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
11807 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
11808 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
11810 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
11811 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
11812 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
11813 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
11816 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
11817 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
11818 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
11819 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
11820 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11822 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11823 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11824 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11828 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11830 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11831 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11834 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11835 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11838 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11839 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11841 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11842 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11844 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11847 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11848 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11849 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11851 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11852 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11853 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11854 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11857 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11858 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11859 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11860 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11863 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11864 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11865 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11866 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11867 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11868 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11869 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11870 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11871 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11872 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11873 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11874 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11875 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11877 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11878 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11879 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11881 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11882 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11883 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11884 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11885 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11886 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11887 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11889 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11890 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11891 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11893 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11894 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11895 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11896 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11897 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11898 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11899 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11901 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11902 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11903 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11904 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11906 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11907 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11908 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11909 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11911 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11912 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11913 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11914 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11915 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11916 Closes ticket 24978.
11918 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11919 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11920 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11921 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11922 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11923 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11924 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11925 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11926 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11928 o Minor features (geoip):
11929 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11932 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11933 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11934 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11935 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11936 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11938 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11939 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11940 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11941 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11942 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11944 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11945 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11946 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11947 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11948 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11951 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11952 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11953 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11954 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11955 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11956 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11957 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11958 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11959 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11960 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11961 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11964 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11965 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11966 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11968 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11969 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11970 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11973 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11974 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11975 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11976 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11977 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11978 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11979 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11981 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11982 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11983 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11984 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11985 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11986 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11987 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11988 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11989 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11992 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11993 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11994 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11995 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11996 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11997 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11999 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12000 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12001 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12002 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12004 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
12005 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12006 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12007 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12008 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12011 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12012 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12013 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12014 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12015 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12016 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12018 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12019 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12020 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12021 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12022 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12023 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12024 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12025 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12026 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12027 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12028 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12029 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12031 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12032 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12033 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12034 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12036 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12037 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12038 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12039 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12041 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12042 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12043 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12044 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12047 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
12048 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12049 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12050 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
12051 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
12053 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12054 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12056 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12057 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12059 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12060 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12061 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12064 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
12065 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12066 later Tor releases.
12068 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12069 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12071 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12072 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12074 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12077 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12078 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
12079 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12081 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12082 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12083 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12084 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12087 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
12088 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12089 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12090 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12091 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12092 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12093 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12094 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12095 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12096 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12097 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12098 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12099 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12101 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12102 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12103 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12104 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12105 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12106 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12107 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12108 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12109 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12111 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
12112 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12113 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12114 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12115 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12116 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12117 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12119 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
12120 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12121 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12122 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12124 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12125 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12126 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12127 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12128 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12129 Closes ticket 24978.
12131 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
12132 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12133 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12134 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12136 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12137 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12138 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12139 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12140 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12141 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12142 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12143 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12144 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12146 o Minor features (geoip):
12147 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12150 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12151 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12152 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12154 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
12155 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12156 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12157 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12158 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12160 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
12161 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12162 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12163 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12164 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12166 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12167 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12168 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12169 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12170 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12173 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12174 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12175 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12177 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12178 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12179 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12182 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12183 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12184 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12185 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12186 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12187 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12188 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12190 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12191 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12192 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12193 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12194 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12197 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12198 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12199 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12200 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12201 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12202 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12204 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
12205 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12206 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12207 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12209 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12210 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12211 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12212 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12213 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12214 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12215 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12216 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12217 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12218 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12219 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12220 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12222 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
12223 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12224 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12225 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12228 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12229 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12230 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12231 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
12232 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
12234 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12235 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12237 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12238 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12241 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
12242 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
12243 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
12246 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12247 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12249 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
12250 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
12251 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
12252 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
12253 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
12254 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
12257 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12258 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12260 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12263 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
12264 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
12265 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
12266 the DoS mitigations.)
12268 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12269 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12270 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12271 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12274 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12275 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
12276 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
12277 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12279 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12280 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12281 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12282 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12283 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12284 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12285 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12286 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12287 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12288 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12289 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12290 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12291 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12293 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12294 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12295 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12296 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12297 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12298 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12299 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12300 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
12301 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
12302 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
12303 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12305 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12306 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12307 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12309 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12310 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12311 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12312 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12313 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12314 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12315 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12317 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12318 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
12319 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
12320 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12322 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12323 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12324 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12325 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12327 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12328 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12329 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12330 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12331 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12332 Closes ticket 24978.
12334 o Minor features (geoip):
12335 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12338 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12339 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
12340 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
12343 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12344 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12345 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12346 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12347 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12349 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12350 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12351 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12352 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12353 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12354 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12355 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12357 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12358 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12359 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12360 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12361 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12363 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12364 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
12365 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
12366 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12368 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12369 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
12370 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
12371 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
12372 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12374 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12375 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12376 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12377 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12379 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12380 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12381 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12382 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12384 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12385 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12386 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12387 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12389 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12390 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12392 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12393 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12395 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12396 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
12397 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
12399 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12400 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
12401 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
12402 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
12403 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12405 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12406 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12407 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12409 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
12410 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
12411 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
12415 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
12416 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
12417 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12418 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12420 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
12421 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
12422 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
12423 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
12424 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
12425 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12427 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12430 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
12431 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
12432 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
12433 the DoS mitigations.)
12435 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
12436 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12437 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12438 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12441 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12442 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12443 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12444 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12445 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12446 Closes ticket 24978.
12448 o Minor features (logging):
12449 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
12450 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
12452 o Minor features (testing):
12453 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
12456 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
12457 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12458 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12459 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12460 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12461 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12462 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12464 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
12465 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
12466 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
12467 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12468 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
12469 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
12472 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
12473 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
12474 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
12475 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
12477 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12478 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
12479 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
12480 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
12481 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
12484 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
12485 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12487 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12488 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12490 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
12491 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
12492 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12493 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
12495 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12496 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12497 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12500 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
12501 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
12502 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
12503 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
12504 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
12505 it to older supported release series.
12507 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
12508 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12509 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12510 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12511 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12512 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12513 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12514 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12515 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12516 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12517 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12518 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12519 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12521 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
12522 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
12523 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
12524 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
12525 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
12526 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
12527 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
12528 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12530 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
12531 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12532 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12534 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
12535 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
12536 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
12537 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12539 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
12540 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12541 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12542 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12544 o Minor features (directory authority):
12545 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
12546 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
12548 o Minor features (geoip):
12549 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12552 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
12553 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
12554 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
12557 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
12558 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12559 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12560 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12561 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12563 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
12564 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12565 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12566 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12567 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12569 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
12570 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
12571 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
12572 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
12574 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
12575 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
12576 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
12577 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
12578 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12580 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12581 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
12582 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
12583 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12585 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12586 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12587 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12588 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12589 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
12590 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
12591 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
12593 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12594 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
12595 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
12596 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
12597 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12598 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
12599 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
12600 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
12602 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12603 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
12604 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
12605 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
12606 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
12607 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
12608 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12610 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
12611 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
12612 would call the Rust implementation of
12613 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
12614 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
12615 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
12616 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
12617 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12619 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
12620 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
12621 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
12624 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
12625 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
12626 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
12627 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
12628 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
12629 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12631 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
12632 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
12633 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
12634 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
12635 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12637 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12638 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
12640 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
12641 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
12642 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
12645 o Documentation (man page):
12646 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
12647 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
12651 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
12652 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
12653 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
12654 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
12655 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
12656 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
12659 o Major features (embedding):
12660 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
12661 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
12662 Closes ticket 23684.
12663 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
12664 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
12665 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
12666 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
12667 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
12668 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
12670 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
12671 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
12672 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
12673 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
12674 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
12675 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
12676 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
12677 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
12678 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
12679 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
12680 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
12683 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
12684 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
12685 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
12686 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
12687 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
12688 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
12689 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
12691 o Major features (onion services):
12692 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
12693 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
12694 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
12695 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
12696 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
12699 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
12700 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
12701 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
12702 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
12703 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
12704 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
12705 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
12706 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
12708 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
12709 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
12710 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
12711 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
12712 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
12714 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
12715 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
12716 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
12717 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
12718 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
12719 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
12720 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12722 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
12723 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12724 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12725 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12726 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12727 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12728 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12729 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
12730 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
12731 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
12732 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12734 o Major bugfixes (relays):
12735 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12736 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12737 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12738 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12739 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12740 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12742 o Minor feature (IPv6):
12743 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
12744 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
12745 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
12746 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
12747 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
12748 Implements ticket 23827.
12750 o Minor features (cleanup):
12751 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
12752 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
12754 o Minor features (defensive programming):
12755 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
12756 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
12757 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
12758 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
12759 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
12760 once. Part of ticket 24337.
12761 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
12762 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
12763 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
12765 o Minor features (embedding):
12766 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
12767 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
12768 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
12769 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
12770 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
12771 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
12772 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
12773 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
12774 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
12775 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
12776 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
12777 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
12778 Closes ticket 23848.
12779 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
12780 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
12781 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
12783 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
12784 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
12785 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
12786 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
12787 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
12788 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
12789 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
12790 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
12793 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
12794 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
12795 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
12796 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
12797 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
12798 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
12799 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
12801 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
12802 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
12803 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
12804 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
12805 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
12806 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
12807 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
12808 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
12809 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
12810 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
12811 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
12812 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
12814 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
12815 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
12816 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
12818 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
12819 Implements ticket 24791.
12821 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
12822 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
12823 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
12824 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
12825 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
12826 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
12828 o Minor features (heartbeat):
12829 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
12830 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
12833 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
12834 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
12835 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
12836 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
12837 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
12839 o Minor features (log messages):
12840 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
12841 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
12842 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
12843 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
12845 o Minor features (logging, android):
12846 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
12849 o Minor features (performance):
12850 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
12851 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
12852 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
12853 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
12855 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
12856 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
12857 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
12858 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
12859 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
12860 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
12861 Implements ticket 24374.
12863 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
12864 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
12865 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
12866 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
12867 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
12869 o Minor features (performance, windows):
12870 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
12871 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
12872 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
12875 o Major features (relay):
12876 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
12877 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
12878 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
12879 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
12880 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12882 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
12883 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
12884 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
12885 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
12886 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
12887 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
12888 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
12889 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
12890 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
12892 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
12893 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
12894 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
12895 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12897 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
12898 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
12899 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
12900 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
12901 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
12902 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
12903 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12904 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
12905 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
12906 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
12907 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
12908 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
12911 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
12912 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
12913 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
12914 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
12917 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
12918 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
12919 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
12922 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
12923 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
12924 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
12926 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
12927 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12928 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
12929 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
12930 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
12932 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
12933 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
12934 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
12935 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12937 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
12938 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
12939 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12940 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
12941 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
12942 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12944 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12945 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
12946 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
12947 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12949 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12950 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
12951 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
12952 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
12953 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12954 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
12957 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
12958 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12959 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12960 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12962 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
12963 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12964 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12965 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12967 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
12968 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
12969 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
12970 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
12971 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
12972 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12973 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
12974 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
12975 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
12976 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
12977 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
12978 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12980 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12981 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
12982 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12983 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
12984 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
12986 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12987 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
12989 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
12990 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
12991 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
12992 "aruna1234" and teor.
12993 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
12994 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
12995 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
12996 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
12998 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
12999 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
13000 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
13001 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
13002 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
13003 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
13004 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
13005 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
13006 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
13007 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
13009 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
13010 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
13013 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
13014 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
13016 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
13017 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
13018 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
13019 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
13020 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13021 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13024 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
13025 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
13026 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
13027 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
13028 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
13030 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
13031 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
13032 adding very little except for unit test.
13034 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
13035 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
13036 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
13037 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
13039 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
13040 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
13041 const. Implements ticket 24489.
13044 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
13045 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
13047 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
13048 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
13049 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
13050 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
13051 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
13052 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
13054 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13055 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13056 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13057 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13058 with the 0.2.9 series.
13060 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
13061 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13063 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
13064 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
13065 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
13066 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
13067 information. Closes ticket 24801.
13068 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
13069 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
13070 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
13071 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
13073 o Minor features (geoip):
13074 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13077 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
13078 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
13079 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
13080 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
13081 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
13084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13085 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
13086 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13088 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13089 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13090 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13091 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13095 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
13096 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
13097 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
13098 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
13099 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
13100 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
13101 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
13103 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
13104 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
13105 will be nearly identical to this.
13107 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
13108 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
13109 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
13110 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
13111 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
13112 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
13113 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13115 o Minor features (geoip):
13116 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13119 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
13120 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
13121 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
13122 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13124 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
13125 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13126 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13127 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13128 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13131 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13132 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
13133 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
13134 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
13135 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
13136 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13139 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
13140 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
13141 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
13143 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
13144 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
13145 be nearly identical to this.
13147 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
13148 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
13149 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
13150 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
13151 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
13152 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
13153 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13155 o Minor features (logging):
13156 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
13159 o Minor features (portability):
13160 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
13161 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
13164 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
13165 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
13166 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
13167 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
13168 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13169 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
13170 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
13171 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
13172 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13173 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
13174 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
13175 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
13176 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13178 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13179 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
13180 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
13182 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13183 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
13184 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
13185 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
13186 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
13187 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
13188 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
13191 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
13192 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
13193 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
13194 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
13195 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
13196 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
13197 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13199 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13200 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
13201 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
13202 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
13203 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
13204 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
13205 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
13206 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13207 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
13208 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
13209 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13212 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
13213 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
13214 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
13215 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
13218 o Major bugfixes (security):
13219 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13220 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13221 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13222 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13223 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13224 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13225 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13226 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13227 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13228 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13230 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13231 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13232 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13233 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13234 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13235 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13236 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13239 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
13240 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13241 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13242 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13243 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13245 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
13246 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13247 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13248 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13249 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13250 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13251 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13252 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13253 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13255 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
13256 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
13257 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
13258 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
13260 o Minor features (directory authority):
13261 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13264 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13265 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
13266 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
13267 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13270 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
13271 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
13272 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
13273 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
13275 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13276 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13277 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13278 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13279 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13280 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13281 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13282 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13283 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13284 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13285 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13287 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13288 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13289 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13290 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13291 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13292 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13293 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13296 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13297 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13298 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13299 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13300 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13302 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13303 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13304 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13305 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13306 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13307 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13308 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13309 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13310 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13312 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13313 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13314 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13315 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13316 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13317 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13320 o Minor features (bridge):
13321 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13322 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13323 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13324 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13327 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13328 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13331 o Minor features (geoip):
13332 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13335 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13336 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13337 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13338 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13339 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13342 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13343 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13345 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13346 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13347 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13348 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13349 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13350 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13352 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
13353 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
13354 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
13357 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13358 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13359 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13360 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13361 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13364 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
13365 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13366 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13367 to another of the releases coming out today.
13369 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13370 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13371 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13373 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13374 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13375 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13376 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13377 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13378 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13379 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13380 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13381 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13382 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13383 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13385 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13386 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13387 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13388 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13389 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13390 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13391 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13394 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13395 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13396 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13397 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13398 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13400 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13401 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13402 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13403 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13404 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13405 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13406 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13407 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13408 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13410 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13411 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13412 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13413 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13414 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13415 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13418 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13419 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13420 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13421 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13422 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13423 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13425 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13426 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13427 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13428 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13429 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13432 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13433 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13436 o Minor features (geoip):
13437 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13440 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13441 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13442 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13443 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13444 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13446 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13447 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13448 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13450 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13451 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13452 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13453 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13454 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13455 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13457 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13458 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13459 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13460 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13461 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13463 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13464 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13465 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13468 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
13469 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13470 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13471 to another of the releases coming out today.
13473 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13474 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13475 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13476 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13477 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13478 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13481 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13482 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13483 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13484 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13485 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13486 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13487 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13488 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13489 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13490 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13491 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13493 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13494 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13495 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13496 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13497 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13498 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13499 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13502 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13503 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13504 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13505 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13506 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13508 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13509 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13510 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13511 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13512 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13513 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13515 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13516 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13517 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13518 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13519 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13522 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13523 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13526 o Minor features (geoip):
13527 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13530 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13531 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13532 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13533 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13534 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13535 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13537 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13538 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13539 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13540 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13541 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13543 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13544 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13545 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13547 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13548 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13549 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13550 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13551 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13552 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13554 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13555 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13556 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13557 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13558 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13560 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13561 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13562 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13565 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
13566 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13567 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13568 to another of the releases coming out today.
13570 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13571 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
13572 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13574 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13575 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13576 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13577 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13578 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13579 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13580 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13581 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13582 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13583 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13584 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13585 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13586 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13587 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13588 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13591 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13592 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13593 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13594 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13595 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13597 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13598 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
13599 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
13600 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
13601 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
13604 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13605 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13606 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13607 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13608 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13611 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13612 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13615 o Minor features (geoip):
13616 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13619 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13620 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13621 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13624 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
13625 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13626 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13627 to another of the releases coming out today.
13629 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13630 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13631 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13633 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13634 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13635 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13636 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13637 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13638 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13639 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13640 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13641 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13642 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13643 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13644 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13645 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13646 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13647 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13650 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13651 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13652 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13653 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13654 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13655 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13657 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13658 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13659 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13660 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13661 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13664 o Minor features (geoip):
13665 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13669 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
13670 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
13671 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
13672 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
13673 since the 0.3.0.x series.
13675 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
13676 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
13679 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
13680 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
13681 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
13682 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
13683 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
13684 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
13685 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
13686 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
13687 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
13688 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
13689 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
13692 o Minor features (directory authority):
13693 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
13694 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
13695 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
13696 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
13698 o Minor features (geoip):
13699 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13702 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13703 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
13704 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
13706 o Minor features (logging):
13707 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
13708 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
13710 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
13711 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
13713 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13714 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
13715 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
13716 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13717 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
13718 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
13719 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
13720 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
13722 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13723 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
13724 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
13727 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
13728 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
13729 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
13730 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13732 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
13733 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
13734 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13735 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
13736 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
13737 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
13738 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
13739 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
13740 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
13743 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13744 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
13745 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13746 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
13747 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
13748 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
13749 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13751 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
13752 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
13753 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
13754 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
13755 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
13756 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13758 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13759 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
13760 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
13761 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
13762 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13763 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
13764 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
13766 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
13767 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
13768 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13770 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13771 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
13772 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
13773 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
13774 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
13775 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
13776 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
13777 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
13780 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
13781 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
13782 section. Closes ticket 24254.
13785 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
13786 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
13787 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
13788 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
13791 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
13792 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13793 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13794 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13795 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13796 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13799 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
13800 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
13801 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
13802 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
13803 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13805 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
13806 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
13807 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
13808 Closes ticket 23753.
13810 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
13811 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
13812 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
13813 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
13814 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
13816 o Minor features (testing):
13817 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
13818 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
13820 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
13821 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
13822 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
13823 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
13824 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13826 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
13827 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
13828 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
13829 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
13830 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
13833 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13834 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
13835 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
13836 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
13837 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13839 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
13840 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
13841 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
13842 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13844 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13845 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
13846 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
13848 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
13849 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13850 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
13852 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13853 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
13854 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
13855 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13856 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
13857 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13859 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
13860 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
13861 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
13862 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
13863 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
13864 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
13865 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13866 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
13867 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
13868 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13869 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
13870 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13872 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
13873 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13874 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13875 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13876 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13878 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13879 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
13880 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13881 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
13882 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
13883 Closes ticket 24109.
13886 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
13887 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
13888 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
13889 directory authority, Bastet.
13891 o Directory authority changes:
13892 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13893 Closes ticket 23910.
13894 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13895 Closes ticket 23592.
13897 o Minor features (bridge):
13898 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
13899 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
13900 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
13901 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
13902 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
13903 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
13904 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
13906 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
13907 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
13908 Resolves ticket 23670.
13910 o Minor features (geoip):
13911 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13914 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
13915 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
13916 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
13917 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13919 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13920 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
13921 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13923 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
13924 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
13925 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
13926 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
13927 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
13928 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13930 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
13931 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
13932 only fetch the service descriptor once.
13933 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
13934 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
13935 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13937 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13938 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
13939 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
13940 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
13942 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
13943 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
13944 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13946 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
13947 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
13948 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
13949 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
13950 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
13952 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
13953 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
13954 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13956 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13957 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
13958 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
13961 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13962 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
13963 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
13964 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
13965 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13966 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
13967 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
13968 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
13970 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
13971 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
13972 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
13973 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
13974 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
13977 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
13978 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
13979 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
13980 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
13981 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
13985 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
13986 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13987 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13989 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13990 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13991 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13993 o Directory authority changes:
13994 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13995 Closes ticket 23910.
13996 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13997 Closes ticket 23592.
13999 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14000 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14001 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14002 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14003 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14005 o Minor features (geoip):
14006 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14009 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14010 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14011 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14012 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14013 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14014 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14015 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14016 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14017 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14019 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14020 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14021 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14022 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14023 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14024 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14025 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14026 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14027 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14030 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
14031 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14032 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14033 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14035 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14036 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14037 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14039 o Directory authority changes:
14040 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14041 Closes ticket 23910.
14042 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14043 Closes ticket 23592.
14045 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14046 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14047 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14048 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14050 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14051 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14052 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14053 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14054 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14056 o Minor features (geoip):
14057 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14061 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
14062 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14063 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14064 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14066 o Directory authority changes:
14067 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14068 Closes ticket 23910.
14069 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14070 Closes ticket 23592.
14072 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14073 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14074 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14075 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14077 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14078 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14079 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14080 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14081 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14083 o Minor features (geoip):
14084 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14087 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14088 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14089 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14090 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14091 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14092 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14093 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14094 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14097 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14098 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14099 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14101 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14102 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14103 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14104 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14105 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14106 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14107 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14110 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
14111 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14112 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14113 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14115 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14116 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14117 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14119 o Directory authority changes:
14120 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14121 Closes ticket 23910.
14122 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14123 Closes ticket 23592.
14125 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14126 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14127 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14128 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14130 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14131 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14132 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14133 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14134 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14136 o Minor features (geoip):
14137 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14140 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14141 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14142 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14143 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14144 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14145 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14146 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14147 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14150 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14151 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14152 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14153 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14155 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14156 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14157 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14159 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14160 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14161 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14162 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14163 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14164 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14165 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14168 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
14169 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
14170 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
14171 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
14172 a new directory authority, Bastet.
14174 o Directory authority changes:
14175 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14176 Closes ticket 23910.
14177 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14178 Closes ticket 23592.
14180 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14181 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14182 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14183 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14185 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14186 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14187 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14188 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14189 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14191 o Minor features (geoip):
14192 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14195 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14196 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
14197 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14198 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
14200 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14201 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
14202 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
14205 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14206 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
14207 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
14209 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14210 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14211 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14212 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14214 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14215 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14216 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14218 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14219 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
14220 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
14224 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
14225 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
14226 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
14227 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
14228 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
14229 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
14231 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
14232 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
14233 include better testing and logging.
14235 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
14238 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
14239 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14240 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14241 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14243 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14244 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
14245 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
14246 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
14247 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
14248 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
14249 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14251 o Minor features (build, compilation):
14252 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
14253 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
14254 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
14255 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
14256 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
14257 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
14258 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
14259 Closes ticket 23643.
14261 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14262 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14263 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14264 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14265 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14267 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
14268 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
14269 the circuit identifier(s).
14270 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
14271 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
14273 o Minor features (logging):
14274 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
14275 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
14276 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
14277 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
14278 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
14280 o Minor features (relay):
14281 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
14282 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
14283 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
14284 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
14286 o Minor features (robustness):
14287 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
14288 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
14290 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
14291 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
14292 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
14293 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
14294 related to ticket 23080.
14296 o Minor features (testing):
14297 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
14298 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
14301 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14302 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
14303 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
14305 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
14306 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
14309 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
14310 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
14311 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14312 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
14313 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
14314 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
14315 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
14316 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
14317 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14319 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
14320 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
14321 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
14324 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14325 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
14326 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
14327 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14329 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
14330 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
14331 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
14332 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
14333 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14334 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
14335 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
14336 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
14339 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
14340 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14341 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14342 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14344 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
14345 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14346 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14347 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14348 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14349 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14351 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
14352 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
14353 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
14354 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14355 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
14356 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
14357 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14358 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
14359 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14360 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
14361 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
14363 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
14364 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
14365 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
14366 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14367 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
14368 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14370 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14371 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
14372 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
14374 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
14375 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
14377 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
14378 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
14379 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14381 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14382 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
14383 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
14386 o Deprecated features:
14387 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
14388 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
14389 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
14392 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
14393 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14394 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
14395 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
14396 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
14397 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
14398 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
14399 Closes ticket 18736.
14402 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
14403 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14404 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
14405 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
14406 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
14407 features and bugfixes here.
14409 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
14411 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
14412 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
14413 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
14414 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
14415 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
14416 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
14417 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
14418 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
14419 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
14420 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
14421 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
14422 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
14424 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
14425 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
14426 more information, see the design paper at
14427 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
14428 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
14429 Closes ticket 12541.
14431 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
14432 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
14433 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
14434 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
14435 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
14436 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
14439 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
14440 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
14442 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
14445 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
14448 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
14450 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
14452 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
14454 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
14455 they are 56 characters long, as in
14456 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
14458 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
14459 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
14460 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
14461 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
14462 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
14465 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
14466 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
14467 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
14468 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
14469 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
14470 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
14473 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
14474 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
14475 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
14476 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
14478 o Minor features (bug detection):
14479 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
14480 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
14481 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
14483 o Minor features (client):
14484 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
14485 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
14486 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
14487 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
14488 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
14489 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
14490 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
14491 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
14492 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
14493 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
14495 o Minor features (command line):
14496 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
14497 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
14498 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
14500 o Minor features (control port):
14501 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
14502 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
14503 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
14505 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
14506 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
14508 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
14509 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
14510 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
14511 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
14512 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
14513 Closes ticket 23237.
14514 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
14515 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
14517 o Minor features (development support):
14518 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
14519 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
14520 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
14521 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
14522 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
14523 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
14525 o Minor features (ed25519):
14526 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
14527 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
14528 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
14530 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
14531 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
14532 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
14534 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
14535 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
14536 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
14537 another program, regardless of the settings of
14538 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
14539 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
14540 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
14542 o Minor features (logging):
14543 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
14544 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
14545 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
14547 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
14548 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
14550 o Minor features (portability):
14551 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
14552 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
14553 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
14554 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
14556 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
14557 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
14558 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
14559 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
14560 results. Closes ticket 22731.
14562 o Minor features (startup, safety):
14563 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
14564 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
14567 o Minor features (static analysis):
14568 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
14569 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
14572 o Minor features (testing):
14573 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
14574 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
14575 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
14576 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
14577 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
14579 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
14580 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
14581 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
14582 Coverity as CID 1415728.
14584 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
14585 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
14586 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
14587 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
14588 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
14589 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
14590 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
14591 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14593 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14594 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
14595 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
14596 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
14597 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14598 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
14599 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
14600 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
14602 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14603 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14604 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14606 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
14607 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
14608 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
14609 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
14611 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
14612 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
14613 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
14614 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
14615 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
14616 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
14618 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
14619 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
14622 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
14623 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
14624 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
14625 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14627 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
14628 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
14629 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
14630 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
14631 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
14632 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
14633 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
14636 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
14637 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
14638 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
14639 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14641 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
14642 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
14643 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14645 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14646 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
14647 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
14648 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14649 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
14650 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
14652 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
14653 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
14654 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
14656 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
14657 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
14658 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
14660 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
14661 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
14662 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
14663 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
14665 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14666 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
14667 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14669 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14670 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
14671 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
14672 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
14673 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14674 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14675 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14676 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14678 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14679 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
14680 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
14681 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14682 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
14683 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
14684 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14686 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
14687 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
14688 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
14689 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14691 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14692 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
14693 function from the general code to handle channel state
14694 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
14695 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
14696 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
14697 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
14698 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
14699 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
14700 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
14701 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
14703 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
14704 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
14706 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
14707 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
14708 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
14709 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
14710 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
14711 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
14712 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
14713 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
14714 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
14715 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
14716 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
14717 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
14719 o Deprecated features:
14720 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
14721 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
14722 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
14726 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
14727 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
14728 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
14729 Closes ticket 15645.
14730 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
14731 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
14732 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
14733 file. Closes ticket 21148.
14735 o Removed features:
14736 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
14737 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
14738 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
14739 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
14740 Closes ticket 21031.
14741 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
14742 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
14745 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
14746 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
14749 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
14750 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
14751 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
14752 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14754 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14755 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
14756 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
14757 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
14759 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14760 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14761 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14762 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14763 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14766 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14769 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14770 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14771 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14774 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14775 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14776 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14777 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14778 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14779 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14780 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14781 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14782 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14784 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14785 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14786 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14787 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14788 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14789 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14790 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14791 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14792 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14795 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
14796 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
14799 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
14800 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
14801 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
14802 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14804 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
14805 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14806 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14807 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14808 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14809 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14810 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14812 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
14813 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14814 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14815 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14817 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
14818 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14819 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14821 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14822 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14823 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14824 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14826 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14827 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14828 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14829 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14830 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14832 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14833 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
14834 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
14835 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
14837 o Minor features (geoip):
14838 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14841 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14842 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14843 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14844 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14846 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14847 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14848 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14849 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
14850 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14851 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
14852 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
14853 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14855 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14856 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
14857 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14859 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14860 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14861 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14864 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14865 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14866 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14867 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
14868 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14870 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14871 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14872 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14873 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14874 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14875 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14877 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14878 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14879 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14880 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14881 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14882 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14883 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14884 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14885 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14887 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14888 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14889 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14890 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14892 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14893 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14894 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14896 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14897 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14898 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14899 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14900 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14902 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
14903 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14904 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14907 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14908 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14909 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14910 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14911 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14913 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14914 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14915 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14916 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14917 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14918 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14919 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14920 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14921 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14924 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
14925 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
14928 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
14929 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
14930 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
14931 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14933 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14934 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
14935 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
14936 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
14939 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14942 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14943 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
14944 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14946 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14947 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14948 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14949 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
14950 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14952 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14953 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14954 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14955 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14957 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14958 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
14959 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
14961 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
14962 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
14963 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
14964 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14967 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
14968 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
14970 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
14971 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
14972 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
14973 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
14974 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
14975 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
14976 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
14978 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
14979 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
14980 disabled. For more information, see
14981 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14983 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
14984 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
14985 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
14986 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
14987 with the 0.2.9 series.
14989 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
14990 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14992 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
14993 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
14994 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
14995 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
14996 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
14998 o Minor features (defensive programming):
14999 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
15000 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
15001 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
15004 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15005 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
15006 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
15007 attempt for bug 23105.
15009 o Minor features (geoip):
15010 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15013 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15014 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15015 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15017 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15018 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15019 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15020 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15021 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15023 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15024 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
15025 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
15026 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15028 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15029 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
15030 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
15034 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
15035 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
15036 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
15037 Windows directory caches.
15039 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
15040 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
15041 will be nearly identical to it.
15043 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
15044 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
15045 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
15046 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
15047 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
15048 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15050 o Minor features (directory authority):
15051 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
15052 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
15053 Closes ticket 22348.
15055 o Minor features (geoip):
15056 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15059 o Minor features (testing):
15060 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
15063 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
15064 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
15065 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15067 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15068 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
15069 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
15070 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
15071 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
15072 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
15073 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
15074 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
15075 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
15076 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15078 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
15079 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15080 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15082 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15083 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15084 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15085 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15087 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15088 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
15089 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
15090 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
15091 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15093 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
15094 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
15095 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
15096 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
15097 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
15098 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15100 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
15101 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
15102 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15103 with the clang static analyzer.
15105 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15106 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
15107 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
15108 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
15109 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
15112 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
15113 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15114 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15115 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15116 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15117 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15118 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15121 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
15122 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
15123 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
15124 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
15126 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15127 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15128 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15129 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15130 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15131 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15132 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15133 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15134 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15136 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15137 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15138 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15139 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15141 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15142 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15143 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15144 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15145 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15147 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15148 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15151 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
15152 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15153 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15154 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15156 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15157 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15158 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15159 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
15160 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15161 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
15162 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
15163 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
15166 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15167 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15168 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15171 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15172 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15173 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15174 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15175 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15176 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15178 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15179 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
15180 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
15181 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15183 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15184 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15185 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15187 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
15188 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
15189 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15192 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
15193 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
15194 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
15195 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
15196 next version will be a release candidate.
15198 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
15199 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
15200 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
15201 one of those versions should upgrade.
15203 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
15204 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15205 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15206 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15207 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15208 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15209 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15210 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15211 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15213 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
15214 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15215 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15216 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15217 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15219 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
15220 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
15221 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
15222 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
15223 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
15224 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15226 o Minor features (bridge authority):
15227 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
15228 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
15230 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
15231 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
15232 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
15233 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
15234 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
15237 o Minor features (geoip):
15238 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15241 o Minor features (relay, performance):
15242 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
15243 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
15244 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
15245 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
15246 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
15249 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
15250 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
15251 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
15252 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
15253 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
15255 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
15256 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
15257 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
15258 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
15259 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15261 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
15262 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
15263 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15264 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
15265 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15266 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
15267 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
15268 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15269 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
15270 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
15271 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
15274 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
15275 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15276 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15277 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15278 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15279 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15281 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15282 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
15283 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
15284 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
15285 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
15286 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
15287 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
15288 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
15291 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
15292 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
15293 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
15296 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
15297 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15298 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15299 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15301 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15302 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15303 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15305 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
15306 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
15307 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
15308 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
15310 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15311 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
15312 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
15313 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
15314 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15315 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
15316 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15319 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
15320 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
15321 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
15322 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
15323 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
15326 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
15327 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
15330 o New dependencies:
15331 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
15332 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
15333 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
15334 close ticket 22623.)
15336 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
15337 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
15338 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
15339 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
15340 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
15341 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
15343 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
15344 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
15345 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
15346 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15348 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
15349 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
15350 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
15351 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
15352 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15354 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15355 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
15356 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
15357 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15359 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
15360 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
15361 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
15362 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
15364 o Minor features (geoip):
15365 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15368 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
15369 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
15370 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
15372 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
15373 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15374 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
15375 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
15376 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
15377 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
15379 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
15380 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
15382 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
15383 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
15384 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
15385 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
15386 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15388 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
15389 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
15390 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
15391 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
15392 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15393 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15394 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15395 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15396 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15397 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15398 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15399 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15401 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15402 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15403 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15404 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15405 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15406 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
15407 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
15408 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
15409 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15411 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15412 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
15413 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
15414 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
15415 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
15416 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
15417 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
15418 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
15419 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
15420 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
15421 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15422 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
15423 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
15424 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
15425 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
15426 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15428 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
15429 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
15430 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
15431 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
15432 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
15433 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
15434 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
15438 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
15440 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
15441 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
15443 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
15444 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
15445 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
15449 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
15450 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
15451 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
15452 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
15453 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
15456 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
15459 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15460 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
15461 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
15462 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
15463 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
15464 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
15466 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15467 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
15468 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
15469 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15471 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15472 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
15473 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
15474 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15476 o Minor features (geoip):
15477 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15480 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15481 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15482 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15483 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15484 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15486 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15487 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15488 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15489 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15490 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15492 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15493 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15494 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15495 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15496 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15497 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15498 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15499 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15500 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15503 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
15504 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
15505 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15506 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15507 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
15509 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
15510 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
15511 bugfixes described below.
15513 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15514 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
15515 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
15516 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15517 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15518 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15519 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15522 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
15523 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
15524 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
15525 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
15526 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
15527 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
15528 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
15531 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
15532 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
15533 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
15534 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
15535 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
15536 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
15537 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
15538 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15539 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
15540 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
15541 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
15542 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
15543 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
15546 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
15547 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
15548 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
15550 o Minor features (code style):
15551 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15552 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15553 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15555 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15556 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
15557 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
15558 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
15559 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
15561 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15562 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15563 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15565 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
15566 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
15567 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15569 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
15570 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
15571 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
15572 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
15573 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
15574 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
15575 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15577 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
15578 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
15579 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
15580 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
15581 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15583 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15584 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
15585 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
15589 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
15592 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
15593 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
15594 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15595 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15596 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
15598 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
15599 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
15600 bugfixes described below.
15602 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
15603 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15604 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
15605 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
15606 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15607 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15608 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15609 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15612 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15613 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
15614 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
15615 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
15616 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
15617 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
15618 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
15621 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15622 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
15623 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
15624 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
15625 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
15626 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
15627 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
15628 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15629 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
15630 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
15631 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
15632 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
15633 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
15636 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15637 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
15638 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
15641 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15642 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15643 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15644 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15645 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15647 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15648 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
15649 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15651 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15652 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15653 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15655 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15656 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
15657 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
15658 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
15659 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
15660 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
15661 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15663 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
15665 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
15666 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
15667 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15670 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
15671 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15672 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15673 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15674 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15675 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15677 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
15678 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
15679 bugfixes described below.
15681 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
15682 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15683 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15684 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15685 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15688 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15689 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
15690 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
15691 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
15692 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
15693 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
15694 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
15697 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15698 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15699 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15700 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15701 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15703 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
15704 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
15705 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
15706 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
15707 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
15708 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
15709 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
15711 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
15712 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
15713 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
15714 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
15715 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
15717 o Minor features (geoip):
15718 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15721 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
15722 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
15723 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
15724 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15726 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15727 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15728 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15730 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
15731 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
15732 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
15733 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
15734 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
15737 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
15738 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
15739 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
15740 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
15741 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15743 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
15744 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15745 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15746 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15747 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15748 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15750 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15751 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15752 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15753 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15756 o Minor features (geoip):
15757 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15760 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15761 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15762 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15763 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15764 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15766 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15767 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15768 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15770 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
15771 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15772 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15773 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15774 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15775 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15777 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15778 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15779 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15780 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15783 o Minor features (geoip):
15784 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15787 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15788 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15789 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15792 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
15793 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15794 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15795 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15796 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15797 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15799 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15800 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15801 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15802 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15805 o Minor features (geoip):
15806 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15809 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15810 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15811 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15813 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
15814 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15815 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15816 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15817 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15818 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15820 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15821 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15822 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15823 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15826 o Minor features (geoip):
15827 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15830 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15831 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15832 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15834 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
15835 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15836 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15837 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15838 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15839 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15841 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15842 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15843 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15844 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15847 o Minor features (geoip):
15848 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15851 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15852 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15853 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15856 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
15857 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
15858 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
15859 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
15861 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
15862 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
15863 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
15864 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
15865 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15867 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15868 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
15869 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
15872 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
15873 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
15874 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
15875 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15878 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
15879 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
15880 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
15881 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
15882 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
15885 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
15886 security, correctness, and performance.
15888 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
15890 o Major features (directory protocol):
15891 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
15892 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
15893 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
15894 now request these documents when available. When both client and
15895 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
15896 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
15897 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
15898 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
15899 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
15900 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
15901 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
15902 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
15903 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
15904 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
15905 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
15906 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
15907 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
15909 o Major features (experimental):
15910 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
15911 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
15912 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
15913 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
15914 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
15915 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
15916 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
15918 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
15919 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
15920 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
15921 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
15922 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
15923 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
15926 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
15927 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
15928 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
15929 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
15930 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
15931 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
15932 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
15933 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
15934 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
15935 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
15936 multiples of 10000.
15938 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
15939 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
15940 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
15941 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
15942 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
15943 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
15944 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
15945 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
15946 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15947 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
15948 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
15949 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
15950 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
15951 Otherwise it is at info.
15953 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15954 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
15955 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
15956 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15958 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
15959 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15960 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15961 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15963 o Minor features (security, windows):
15964 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
15965 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
15966 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
15967 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
15968 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
15970 o Minor features (config options):
15971 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
15972 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
15973 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
15974 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
15975 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
15976 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
15977 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
15978 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
15980 o Minor features (controller):
15981 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
15982 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
15984 o Minor features (defaults):
15985 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
15986 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
15987 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
15988 can. Closes ticket 21407.
15989 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
15990 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
15991 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
15992 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
15993 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
15994 Closes ticket 21641.
15996 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
15997 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
15998 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
15999 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16000 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16001 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16002 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16004 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
16005 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
16006 introduction points than specified in
16007 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
16008 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
16009 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
16010 21594; closes ticket 21622.
16011 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
16012 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
16013 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
16014 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
16016 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16017 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
16018 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
16019 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
16020 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
16021 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
16022 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
16023 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
16024 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
16025 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
16027 o Minor features (logging):
16028 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
16029 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
16030 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
16031 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
16034 o Minor features (performance):
16035 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
16036 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
16038 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
16039 speed some controller functions.
16041 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
16042 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
16043 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
16044 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
16046 o Minor features (safety):
16047 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
16048 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
16049 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
16052 o Minor features (testing):
16053 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
16054 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
16055 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
16056 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
16057 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
16058 on. Closes ticket 21439.
16059 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
16060 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
16061 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
16062 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
16063 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
16064 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
16065 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
16066 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
16067 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
16068 21507. Partially implements 21470.
16070 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
16071 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
16072 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
16073 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
16075 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16076 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
16077 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
16078 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
16081 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16082 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16083 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16085 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
16086 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
16087 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
16088 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
16089 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
16090 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
16091 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16092 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
16093 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
16094 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
16095 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
16096 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
16097 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
16098 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
16100 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16101 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
16102 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16103 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
16104 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
16105 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
16106 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
16107 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16109 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16110 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
16111 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
16112 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16113 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
16114 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
16115 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
16117 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
16118 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
16119 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
16120 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
16121 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
16123 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16124 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
16125 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16126 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
16127 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
16128 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16129 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
16130 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16131 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
16132 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
16133 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16135 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16136 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
16137 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
16138 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16139 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
16140 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
16141 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16143 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16144 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
16145 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16147 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
16148 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
16149 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
16150 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
16151 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16153 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16154 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
16155 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
16156 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16157 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
16158 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16159 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
16160 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
16161 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
16162 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
16164 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
16165 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16166 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16167 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16168 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16170 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
16171 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
16172 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16174 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16175 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
16176 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
16177 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
16178 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
16179 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
16180 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
16181 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
16182 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
16183 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
16184 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
16185 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
16187 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
16188 Resolves ticket 22213.
16189 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
16190 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
16191 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
16192 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
16193 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
16194 types. Closes ticket 21651.
16195 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
16196 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
16199 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
16200 Closes ticket 21873.
16201 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
16202 Closes ticket 21151.
16203 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
16204 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
16206 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
16207 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16208 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
16209 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
16211 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
16212 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
16213 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
16214 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
16215 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
16216 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
16217 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
16218 default behavior is now unavailable.
16219 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
16220 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
16221 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
16222 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
16223 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
16224 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
16225 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
16227 o Removed features (tools):
16228 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
16229 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
16230 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
16231 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
16232 required. Closes ticket 21842.
16235 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
16236 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
16237 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
16238 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
16239 clients are not affected.
16241 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
16242 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
16243 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
16244 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
16245 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
16246 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16249 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16252 o Minor features (future-proofing):
16253 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
16254 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
16255 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
16256 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
16257 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
16258 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
16260 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16261 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
16262 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
16263 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
16264 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
16268 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
16269 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
16271 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
16272 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
16273 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
16274 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
16275 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
16276 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
16279 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
16280 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
16282 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
16283 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
16284 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
16285 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
16286 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
16288 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
16289 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16291 o Minor features (geoip):
16292 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16295 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
16296 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16297 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16298 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16300 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
16301 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
16302 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
16303 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16306 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
16307 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
16308 0.3.0 release series.
16310 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
16311 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
16312 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
16315 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
16316 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
16317 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
16318 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16320 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16321 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
16322 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
16323 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16324 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
16326 o Minor features (geoip):
16327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16330 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
16331 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
16332 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
16333 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
16336 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16337 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
16338 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
16339 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16340 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
16341 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
16342 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
16343 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16345 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16346 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
16347 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16349 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16350 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
16351 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
16354 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16355 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
16356 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
16357 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
16358 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16361 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
16362 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
16363 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
16367 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
16368 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
16369 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
16370 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16371 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
16374 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
16375 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
16376 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16378 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16379 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16380 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16381 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16382 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16383 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16384 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16386 o Minor features (geoip):
16387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16391 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
16392 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16393 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
16394 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16397 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
16398 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16399 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16401 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16402 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16404 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16405 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16406 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16408 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16409 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16410 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16413 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16414 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16415 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16416 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16417 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16418 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16419 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16420 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16421 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16423 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16424 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16425 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16426 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16427 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16428 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16429 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16430 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16431 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16432 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16433 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16434 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16435 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16437 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16438 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16439 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16440 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16441 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16443 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16444 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16445 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16447 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16448 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16449 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16450 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16451 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16452 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16453 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16456 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16457 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16458 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16459 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16460 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16461 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16462 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16464 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16465 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16466 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16467 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16470 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16471 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16472 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16473 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16475 o Minor features (geoip):
16476 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16480 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
16481 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16482 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
16483 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16486 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
16487 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16488 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16490 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16491 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16493 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16494 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16495 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16497 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16498 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16499 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16502 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16503 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16504 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16505 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16506 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16507 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16508 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16509 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16510 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16512 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16513 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16514 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16515 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16516 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16517 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16518 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16519 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16520 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16522 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16523 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16524 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16525 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16526 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16528 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
16529 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16530 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16531 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16532 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16535 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16536 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16537 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16538 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16539 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16541 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16542 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16543 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16545 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16546 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16547 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16548 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16549 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16550 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16553 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16554 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16555 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16556 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16557 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16558 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16559 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16562 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16563 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16564 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16565 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16566 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16567 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16568 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16570 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16571 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16572 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16573 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16576 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16577 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16578 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16579 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16581 o Minor features (geoip):
16582 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16585 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16586 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16587 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16590 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
16591 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16592 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
16593 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16596 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
16597 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
16598 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16600 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16601 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16603 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16604 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16605 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16607 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16608 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16609 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16612 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16613 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16614 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16615 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16616 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16617 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16618 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16619 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16620 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16622 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16623 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16624 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16625 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16626 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16627 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16628 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16629 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16630 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16632 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16633 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16634 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16635 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16636 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16638 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
16639 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16640 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16641 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16642 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16645 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16646 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16647 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16648 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16649 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16651 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16652 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16653 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16655 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16656 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16657 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16658 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16659 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16660 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16663 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16664 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16665 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16666 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16667 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16668 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16669 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16672 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16673 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16674 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16675 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16676 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16677 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16678 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16680 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16681 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16682 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16683 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16686 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16687 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16688 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16689 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16691 o Minor features (geoip):
16692 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16695 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16696 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16697 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16699 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
16700 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16701 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16702 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16703 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16704 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16706 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16707 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16708 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16712 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
16713 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16714 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
16715 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16718 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
16719 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16720 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16722 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16723 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16725 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16726 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16727 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16729 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16730 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16731 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16734 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16735 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16736 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16737 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16738 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16739 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16740 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16741 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16742 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16744 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16745 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16746 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16747 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16748 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16749 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16750 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16751 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16752 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16754 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
16755 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16756 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16757 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16758 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16761 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16762 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16763 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16764 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16765 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16767 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16768 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16769 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16771 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16772 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16773 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16774 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16775 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16776 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16779 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16780 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16781 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16782 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16783 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16784 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16785 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16788 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16789 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16790 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16791 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16792 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16793 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16794 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16796 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16797 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16798 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16799 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16802 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16803 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16804 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16805 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16807 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16808 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16809 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16810 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16812 o Minor features (geoip):
16813 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16816 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16817 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16818 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16820 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16821 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16822 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16826 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
16827 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
16828 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
16829 keep them from coming back.
16831 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
16832 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
16833 will be nearly identical to it.
16835 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
16836 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
16837 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
16838 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
16839 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
16840 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16842 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
16843 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
16844 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16846 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
16847 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
16848 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
16849 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
16850 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
16851 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
16852 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
16853 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
16854 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
16855 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16856 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16857 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16858 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16859 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16860 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16862 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
16863 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
16864 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
16866 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16867 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
16868 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
16870 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
16871 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
16872 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16873 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
16874 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
16875 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
16876 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
16878 o Minor features (geoip):
16879 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16882 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
16883 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
16884 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
16887 o Minor features (testing):
16888 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
16889 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
16890 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
16892 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
16893 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
16894 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
16896 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16897 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
16898 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
16899 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
16900 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
16901 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16903 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
16904 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
16905 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
16906 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16907 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
16908 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
16909 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
16912 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
16913 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
16914 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
16915 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16916 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
16917 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
16918 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16920 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16921 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
16922 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
16923 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
16924 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
16925 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16927 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16928 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
16929 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
16931 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
16932 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16933 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
16934 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
16935 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16938 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
16941 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
16942 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
16943 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
16944 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
16946 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
16947 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
16948 least January of 2020.
16950 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16951 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
16952 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
16953 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
16956 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16957 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
16958 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
16959 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
16960 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
16961 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
16962 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16964 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
16965 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16966 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16967 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16968 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16969 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16970 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16972 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
16973 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
16974 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
16976 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
16977 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
16978 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16980 o Minor features (geoip):
16981 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16984 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16985 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
16986 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
16988 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
16989 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
16991 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
16992 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
16993 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
16995 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16996 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
16997 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
16998 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16999 Patch by "junglefowl".
17002 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
17003 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
17004 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
17005 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
17006 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
17007 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
17009 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
17010 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
17011 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
17014 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
17015 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17016 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17017 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17019 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
17020 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
17021 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
17022 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
17023 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17025 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
17026 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
17027 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
17028 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
17029 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17031 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
17032 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17033 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17034 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17035 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17036 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17037 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17039 o Minor feature (client):
17040 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
17041 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
17043 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
17044 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
17045 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
17046 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
17048 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
17049 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
17050 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
17051 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
17052 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
17054 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
17055 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
17056 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
17057 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
17058 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
17059 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
17060 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
17061 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
17062 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
17063 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
17065 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
17066 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17067 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17069 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17070 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17072 o Minor features (relay):
17073 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
17074 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
17075 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
17076 Written by Michael Sonntag.
17078 o Minor bugfix (logging):
17079 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
17080 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
17081 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
17082 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
17085 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17086 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
17087 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
17088 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17090 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
17091 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
17092 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
17094 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
17095 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17096 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
17097 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
17098 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17099 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
17100 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
17102 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
17103 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
17104 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
17105 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
17106 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
17107 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
17108 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
17111 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17112 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
17113 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17115 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17116 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
17117 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
17118 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
17119 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17120 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
17121 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
17122 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
17124 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
17125 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
17126 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17128 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17129 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
17130 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
17131 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
17133 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
17134 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
17135 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
17136 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17138 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
17139 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17140 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17141 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17142 Patch by "junglefowl".
17144 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
17145 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
17146 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
17150 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
17151 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17152 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
17153 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
17154 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
17155 version should upgrade.
17157 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
17158 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
17159 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
17160 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
17161 the set of fallback directories, and more.
17163 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
17164 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
17165 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
17166 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
17167 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
17168 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
17171 o Major features (security):
17172 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
17173 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
17174 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
17175 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
17176 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
17177 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
17179 o Major features (directory authority, security):
17180 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
17181 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
17182 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
17184 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
17185 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
17186 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
17187 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
17188 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
17191 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
17192 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
17193 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
17194 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
17195 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
17196 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
17197 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
17198 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
17199 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
17200 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
17201 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17203 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
17204 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
17205 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17207 o Minor features (controller):
17208 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
17209 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
17211 o Minor features (entry guards):
17212 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
17213 break regression tests.
17214 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
17215 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
17217 o Minor features (fallback directories):
17218 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
17220 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
17221 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
17222 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
17223 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
17224 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
17225 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
17226 Closes ticket 20539.
17227 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
17229 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
17230 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
17231 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
17232 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
17233 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
17235 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
17236 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
17237 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
17238 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
17239 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
17240 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
17241 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
17242 Closes ticket 20822.
17243 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
17244 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
17246 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
17247 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17250 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
17251 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
17252 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
17253 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
17255 o Minor features (linting):
17256 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
17257 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
17259 o Minor features (logging):
17260 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
17261 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
17263 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
17264 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
17265 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
17266 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
17267 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
17268 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
17270 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
17271 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
17272 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
17273 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
17275 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17276 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
17277 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
17280 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
17281 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
17282 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
17283 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17285 o Minor bugfixes (config):
17286 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
17287 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
17288 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
17289 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17291 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17292 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
17293 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
17296 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
17297 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
17298 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
17299 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
17300 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17302 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
17303 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
17304 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
17306 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17307 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
17308 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17309 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
17310 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
17311 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
17312 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17313 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
17314 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17316 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
17317 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
17318 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
17319 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17321 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
17322 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
17323 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
17324 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17325 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
17326 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17328 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17329 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
17330 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17331 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
17332 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
17333 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
17334 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
17335 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
17337 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17338 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
17339 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17341 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
17342 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
17343 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
17344 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
17346 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
17347 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17349 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17350 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
17351 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
17352 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
17353 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
17355 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17356 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
17357 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17359 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17360 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
17361 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
17362 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
17363 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
17365 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17366 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
17367 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
17369 o Documentation (formatting):
17370 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
17371 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
17373 o Documentation (man page):
17374 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
17375 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
17378 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
17379 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17380 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
17381 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
17382 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
17383 version should upgrade.
17385 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
17386 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
17388 o Major bugfixes (security):
17389 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
17390 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
17391 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
17392 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
17393 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
17394 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17396 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
17397 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
17398 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
17399 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
17400 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
17401 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
17402 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
17403 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
17404 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
17405 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
17406 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17408 o Minor features (geoip):
17409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17412 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17413 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
17414 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
17415 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
17417 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
17418 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17421 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
17422 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
17423 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
17424 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
17425 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
17426 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
17427 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
17428 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
17430 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
17432 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
17433 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
17434 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
17435 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
17436 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
17439 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
17440 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
17441 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
17442 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
17443 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
17444 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
17445 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
17446 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
17449 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
17450 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
17451 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
17452 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
17453 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
17455 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
17456 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
17457 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
17458 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
17459 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
17460 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
17461 15056; part of proposal 220.
17462 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
17463 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
17464 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
17465 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
17466 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
17468 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
17469 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
17470 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
17471 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
17472 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17474 o Minor features (controller):
17475 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
17476 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
17479 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
17480 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
17481 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
17484 o Minor features (directory authority):
17485 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
17486 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
17487 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
17488 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
17489 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
17491 o Minor features (directory cache):
17492 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
17493 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
17496 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
17497 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
17498 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
17499 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
17501 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
17502 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
17503 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
17504 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
17506 o Minor features (infrastructure):
17507 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
17508 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
17510 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17511 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
17512 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
17513 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
17515 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17516 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
17517 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17518 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
17519 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
17520 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
17522 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
17523 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
17524 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
17525 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
17526 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17528 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
17529 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
17530 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
17531 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
17532 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17534 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
17535 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
17536 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
17537 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
17538 on all recent tor versions.
17539 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
17540 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
17541 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
17542 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17544 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
17545 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
17546 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17548 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17549 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
17550 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
17551 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
17554 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
17555 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
17556 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
17559 o Minor bugfixes (util):
17560 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
17561 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
17562 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
17563 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
17565 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
17566 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
17567 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
17568 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
17570 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17571 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
17572 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
17573 Closes ticket 19858.
17574 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
17575 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
17576 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
17577 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
17578 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
17579 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
17580 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
17581 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
17582 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
17583 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
17584 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
17585 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
17586 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
17587 redundant with the similar structures used in the
17588 channel abstraction.
17589 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
17590 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
17591 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
17592 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
17593 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
17594 replaced with code automatically generated by the
17598 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
17599 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17600 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
17601 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
17603 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
17604 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
17606 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
17607 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
17608 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
17609 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
17610 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
17613 o Removed features:
17614 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
17615 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
17616 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
17618 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
17619 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
17620 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
17623 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
17624 from "overcaffeinated".
17625 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
17626 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
17627 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
17628 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
17629 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
17633 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
17634 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
17635 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
17636 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
17637 become available for their systems.
17639 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
17642 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
17643 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
17645 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
17646 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17647 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17648 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17649 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17650 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17651 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17652 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17653 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17655 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
17656 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
17657 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
17658 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
17659 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
17661 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
17662 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17666 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
17667 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
17669 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
17670 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
17671 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
17672 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
17673 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
17674 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
17675 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
17676 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
17678 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
17680 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
17681 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
17682 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
17683 become available for their systems.
17685 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
17686 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17688 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
17689 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17690 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17691 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17692 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17693 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17694 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17695 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17696 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17698 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
17699 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
17700 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
17701 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
17702 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
17705 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
17706 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
17707 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
17710 o Minor features (geoip):
17711 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17714 o Minor bugfix (build):
17715 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
17716 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
17717 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17719 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17720 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
17721 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
17722 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
17724 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
17725 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
17726 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
17728 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17729 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
17730 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
17733 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
17734 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
17735 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17736 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
17737 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
17738 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17740 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17741 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
17742 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
17743 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17745 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17746 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
17747 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
17749 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17750 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
17751 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
17752 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
17753 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
17754 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
17755 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17756 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
17757 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
17758 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
17761 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
17762 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
17763 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
17764 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
17767 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17768 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
17769 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
17770 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
17771 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
17772 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
17775 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17776 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
17777 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
17780 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
17781 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
17782 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
17783 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
17785 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17786 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
17787 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
17788 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17791 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17792 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
17793 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
17794 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17797 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
17798 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
17799 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
17802 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17803 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
17804 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17806 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17807 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
17808 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
17810 o Minor features (geoip):
17811 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17814 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
17815 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
17816 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
17817 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
17818 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
17820 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
17821 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
17822 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
17823 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
17824 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
17825 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17827 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
17828 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
17829 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17831 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17832 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
17833 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
17834 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
17835 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
17836 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
17838 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17839 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
17840 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
17842 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
17843 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
17845 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
17846 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
17847 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
17848 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
17849 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
17850 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
17852 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17853 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
17854 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
17858 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
17859 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
17862 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
17863 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
17864 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
17865 everyone to test this release.
17867 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
17868 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
17869 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
17870 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17873 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
17874 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
17875 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
17876 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17879 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
17880 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
17881 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
17882 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
17883 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17884 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
17885 download, stop waiting for certificates.
17886 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
17887 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
17888 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
17890 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
17891 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
17892 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
17893 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17894 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
17895 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17896 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
17897 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
17898 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17899 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
17900 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
17901 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
17903 o Minor features (geoip):
17904 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17907 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
17908 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
17909 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
17910 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
17911 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
17912 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17914 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
17915 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
17916 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
17917 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17918 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
17919 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17921 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17922 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
17923 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
17924 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
17927 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17928 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
17929 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
17930 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
17931 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
17932 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17933 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
17934 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17936 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
17937 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
17938 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17940 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17941 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
17942 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
17943 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
17944 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17945 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
17946 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
17947 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17949 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
17950 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
17951 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
17954 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17955 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
17956 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17959 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
17960 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17961 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
17962 tickets 19287 and 19290.
17965 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
17966 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
17967 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
17968 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
17969 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
17972 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17973 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17974 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17975 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17976 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17977 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17978 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17979 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17980 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17982 o Minor features (geoip):
17983 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17987 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
17988 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
17989 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
17990 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
17991 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
17994 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
17995 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
17996 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
17997 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
17998 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
17999 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
18000 be a release candidate.
18002 o Major features (security fixes):
18003 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18004 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18005 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18006 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18007 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18008 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18009 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18010 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18012 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
18013 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
18014 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
18015 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
18016 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
18017 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
18018 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
18019 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
18020 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
18021 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
18022 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
18023 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
18024 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
18025 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
18028 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18029 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
18030 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18032 o Minor features (client, directory):
18033 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
18034 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
18035 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
18038 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
18039 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
18042 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
18043 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
18044 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
18047 o Minor features (geoip):
18048 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18051 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
18052 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
18053 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
18054 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
18055 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
18057 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
18058 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
18059 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
18060 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
18063 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
18064 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
18065 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
18066 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
18067 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
18069 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
18070 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
18071 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
18074 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18075 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
18076 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
18077 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
18079 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18080 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
18081 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
18082 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
18084 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
18085 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
18086 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
18087 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
18090 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18091 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
18092 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
18096 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
18097 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
18099 o Required libraries:
18100 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
18101 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
18102 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
18105 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
18106 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
18107 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
18108 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
18109 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
18110 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
18111 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
18112 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
18114 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
18115 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18116 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18117 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18118 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18119 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18121 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
18122 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18123 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18124 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18125 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18128 o Major features (circuit building, security):
18129 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
18130 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
18131 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
18133 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
18134 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
18136 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
18137 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
18138 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
18139 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
18140 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
18141 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
18142 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
18143 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
18144 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
18145 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
18146 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
18148 o Major features (resource management):
18149 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
18150 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
18151 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
18152 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
18153 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
18154 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
18156 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
18157 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
18158 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
18159 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
18161 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18162 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
18163 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
18164 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18166 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18167 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
18168 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
18169 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
18170 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
18171 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
18173 o Minor features (security, TLS):
18174 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
18175 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
18176 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
18177 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
18179 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18180 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
18181 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
18182 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18184 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
18185 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18188 o Minor feature (port flags):
18189 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
18190 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
18191 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
18192 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
18193 18693; patch by "teor".
18195 o Minor features (directory authority):
18196 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
18197 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
18198 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
18200 o Minor features (testing):
18201 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
18202 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
18203 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
18204 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
18206 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
18207 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
18208 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
18209 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
18210 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
18211 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
18212 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
18213 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
18214 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
18216 o Minor features (Tor2web):
18217 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
18218 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
18219 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
18221 o Minor features (unit tests):
18222 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
18223 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
18224 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
18225 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
18226 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
18227 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
18228 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
18229 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
18231 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
18232 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
18233 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
18234 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
18235 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
18236 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
18237 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
18238 assertion as a test failure.
18240 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
18241 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
18242 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
18243 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
18244 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
18245 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
18247 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
18248 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
18249 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
18250 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
18251 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
18252 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
18253 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
18254 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
18255 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
18256 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
18257 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18258 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18259 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
18260 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
18261 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
18262 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18264 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18265 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
18266 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
18267 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
18268 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18269 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
18270 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
18273 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18274 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
18275 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
18276 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
18277 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
18278 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
18279 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
18282 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18283 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
18284 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
18285 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
18287 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
18288 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
18289 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
18291 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18292 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
18293 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
18294 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
18295 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
18296 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18298 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18299 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
18300 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
18301 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
18303 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
18304 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
18305 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
18307 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
18308 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
18309 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
18310 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
18311 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
18312 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
18314 o Minor bugfixes (options):
18315 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
18316 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
18318 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
18319 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
18320 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18323 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
18324 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
18325 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
18326 19678. Patch by teor.
18328 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18329 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
18330 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
18331 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
18332 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
18333 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
18335 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
18336 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
18340 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
18341 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
18342 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
18343 who select public relays as their bridges.
18345 o Major bugfixes (crash):
18346 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18347 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18348 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18349 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18350 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18352 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
18353 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18354 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18355 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18356 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18359 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18360 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
18361 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
18362 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18364 o Minor features (geoip):
18365 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18369 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
18370 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
18371 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
18372 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
18373 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
18374 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
18376 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
18377 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
18378 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
18380 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
18381 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
18382 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
18383 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
18384 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
18385 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18387 o Major features (user interface):
18388 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
18389 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
18390 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
18392 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
18393 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
18394 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
18395 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18397 o Minor features (config):
18398 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
18399 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
18401 o Minor features (geoip):
18402 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18405 o Minor features (user interface):
18406 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
18407 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
18410 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
18411 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
18412 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
18414 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18415 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
18416 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
18418 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
18419 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
18420 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
18421 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18423 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
18424 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
18425 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
18428 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
18429 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
18430 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
18431 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
18433 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18434 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
18435 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
18437 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18438 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
18439 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18441 o Deprecated features:
18442 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
18443 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
18444 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
18445 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
18446 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
18447 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
18448 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
18449 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
18450 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
18451 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
18452 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
18453 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
18454 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
18455 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
18456 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
18457 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
18458 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
18459 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
18460 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
18461 and TransListenAddress.
18464 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
18465 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
18468 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
18469 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
18472 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
18473 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
18474 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
18475 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
18476 encouraged to upgrade.
18478 o Directory authority changes:
18479 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
18480 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
18482 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
18483 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
18484 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
18485 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
18486 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
18487 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18489 o Minor features (geoip):
18490 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18493 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18494 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
18495 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
18498 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18499 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
18500 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
18501 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
18504 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
18505 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
18506 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
18507 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
18508 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
18509 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
18510 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
18511 security, correctness, and performance.
18513 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
18515 o New system requirements:
18516 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
18517 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
18518 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
18519 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
18520 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
18521 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
18522 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
18523 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
18525 o Major features (build, hardening):
18526 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
18527 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
18528 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
18529 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
18530 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
18531 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
18532 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
18533 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
18534 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
18536 o Major features (compilation):
18537 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
18538 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
18539 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
18540 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
18542 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
18543 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
18544 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
18546 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
18547 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
18548 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
18549 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
18550 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
18551 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
18552 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
18553 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
18555 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
18556 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
18557 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
18558 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
18559 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
18560 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
18561 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
18563 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
18564 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
18565 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
18566 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
18567 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
18568 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
18569 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
18571 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
18572 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
18573 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
18574 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
18575 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
18577 o Minor features (build, hardening):
18578 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
18579 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
18580 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
18581 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
18582 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
18583 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
18584 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
18585 Closes ticket 18895.
18587 o Minor features (code safety):
18588 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
18589 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
18592 o Minor features (controller):
18593 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
18594 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
18595 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
18596 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
18597 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
18598 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
18599 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
18600 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
18602 o Minor features (directory authority):
18603 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
18604 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
18605 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
18606 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
18607 Implements ticket 18624.
18608 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
18609 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
18610 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
18613 o Minor features (hidden service):
18614 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
18615 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
18616 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
18619 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
18620 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
18621 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
18622 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
18623 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
18624 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
18625 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
18626 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
18627 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
18628 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
18629 Closes ticket 18365.
18631 o Minor features (logging):
18632 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
18633 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
18634 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
18635 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
18636 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
18637 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
18638 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
18639 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
18640 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
18641 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
18643 o Minor features (performance):
18644 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
18645 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
18646 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
18647 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
18648 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
18649 Closes ticket 18815.
18651 o Minor features (relay, usability):
18652 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
18653 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
18654 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
18655 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
18658 o Minor features (testing):
18659 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
18660 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18661 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
18662 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
18663 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
18664 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
18665 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
18666 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
18669 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
18670 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
18671 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
18672 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
18673 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18675 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18676 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
18677 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
18678 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
18679 patch from "cypherpunks".
18681 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
18682 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
18683 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18685 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18686 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
18687 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
18688 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18690 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18691 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
18692 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
18693 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18694 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
18695 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
18696 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
18697 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18699 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18700 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
18701 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18702 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
18703 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
18704 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
18705 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
18707 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
18708 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
18709 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
18712 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
18713 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
18714 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
18716 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
18717 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
18718 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
18721 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
18722 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
18723 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
18724 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
18727 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18728 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
18729 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
18731 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18732 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
18733 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
18736 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18737 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
18738 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18739 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
18740 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
18741 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
18742 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18743 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
18744 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
18747 o Minor bugfixes (time):
18748 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
18749 bugfix on all released tor versions.
18750 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
18751 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
18752 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
18753 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18755 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
18756 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
18757 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
18758 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
18759 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
18761 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
18762 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18764 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18765 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
18767 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
18768 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
18769 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
18770 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
18773 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
18774 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
18776 o Removed features:
18777 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
18778 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
18779 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
18780 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
18781 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
18782 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
18783 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
18786 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
18787 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
18788 command-line options to enable them.
18789 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
18790 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
18793 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
18795 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
18797 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
18798 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
18799 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
18800 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
18801 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
18802 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
18804 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
18806 o Minor features (geoip):
18807 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18810 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18811 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
18812 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18814 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18815 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
18816 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
18817 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
18819 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18820 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
18821 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
18822 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
18823 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
18824 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
18825 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
18826 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18829 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
18830 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
18831 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
18832 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
18833 against previous versions.
18835 o Directory authority changes:
18836 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
18838 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
18839 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
18840 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
18841 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
18843 o Minor features (build):
18844 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
18845 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
18846 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
18847 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18848 Patch from intrigeri.
18850 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
18851 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
18852 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
18855 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
18856 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
18857 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
18858 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
18859 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
18862 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18863 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
18864 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
18865 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18866 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
18867 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
18868 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18870 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
18871 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
18872 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
18873 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
18875 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
18876 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
18877 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
18878 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
18879 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
18880 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18882 o Fallback directory list:
18883 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
18884 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
18885 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
18886 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
18887 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
18888 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
18889 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
18890 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
18891 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
18894 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
18895 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
18896 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
18897 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
18900 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
18901 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
18902 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
18903 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18905 o Minor features (build):
18906 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
18907 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
18909 o Minor features (geoip):
18910 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18913 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18914 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
18915 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18917 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
18918 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
18919 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
18920 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
18924 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
18925 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
18926 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
18927 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
18928 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
18931 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
18932 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
18933 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
18934 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
18935 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18937 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
18938 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
18939 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
18940 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
18941 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
18942 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
18944 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18945 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
18946 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
18947 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18949 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
18950 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
18951 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
18952 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
18953 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
18954 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
18955 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
18957 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
18958 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
18960 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
18961 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
18962 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
18964 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
18965 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
18966 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
18967 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
18968 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
18969 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18972 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
18973 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
18974 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
18977 o Major bugfixes (key management):
18978 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
18979 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
18980 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
18981 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
18982 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
18983 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
18986 o Major bugfixes (testing):
18987 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
18988 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18989 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
18990 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18992 o Minor features (clients):
18993 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
18994 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
18995 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
18997 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
18998 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
18999 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
19000 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
19001 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
19002 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
19003 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
19004 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
19005 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
19006 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
19008 o Minor features (geoip):
19009 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19012 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
19013 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
19014 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
19017 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19018 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
19019 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19021 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19022 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
19023 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
19025 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
19026 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
19028 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
19029 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
19032 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19033 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
19034 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
19035 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
19036 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19037 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
19038 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
19039 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19041 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
19042 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
19043 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
19044 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
19045 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19047 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
19048 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
19049 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
19050 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19051 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19052 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
19055 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
19056 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
19057 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
19058 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
19059 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
19060 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19062 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19063 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
19064 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
19065 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19066 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
19067 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19068 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
19069 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19071 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19072 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
19073 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
19074 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
19076 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
19077 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
19078 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
19079 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
19080 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
19081 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
19084 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19085 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
19086 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
19088 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
19089 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
19090 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19092 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19093 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
19094 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
19096 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19097 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
19098 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
19099 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19100 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
19101 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
19102 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19104 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
19105 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
19106 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
19107 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19110 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
19111 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
19112 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
19113 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
19116 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
19117 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
19118 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
19119 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
19120 directory support should also be much improved.
19122 o New system requirements:
19123 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
19124 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
19125 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
19126 longer runs with, these versions.
19127 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
19128 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
19129 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
19131 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
19132 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
19133 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
19134 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
19135 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
19137 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
19138 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
19139 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
19140 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
19141 Reported by Guido Vranken.
19143 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
19144 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
19145 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
19146 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
19147 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
19149 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
19150 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
19151 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
19152 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19154 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
19155 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
19156 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19157 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
19158 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19160 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
19161 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
19162 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
19163 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
19164 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
19165 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19168 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
19169 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
19170 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19172 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
19173 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
19174 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
19175 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
19178 o Major bugfixes (voting):
19179 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
19180 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
19181 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
19182 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
19184 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
19185 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
19186 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
19187 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19188 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
19189 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
19190 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
19191 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
19192 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
19193 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19195 o Minor features (security, win32):
19196 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
19197 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
19200 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
19201 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
19202 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
19203 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
19205 o Minor features (build):
19206 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
19207 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
19208 Steven Chamberlain.
19210 o Minor features (code hardening):
19211 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
19212 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
19213 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
19216 o Minor features (crypto):
19217 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
19218 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
19221 o Minor features (geoip):
19222 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19225 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
19226 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
19227 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
19228 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
19229 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
19231 o Minor features (IPv6):
19232 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
19233 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
19234 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
19235 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
19236 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
19237 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
19238 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
19240 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19241 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
19242 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
19243 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
19244 while fixing 18548.
19246 o Minor features (robustness):
19247 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
19248 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
19249 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
19251 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
19252 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
19253 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
19254 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
19255 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
19256 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
19257 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
19260 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
19261 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
19262 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
19263 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
19264 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
19266 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
19267 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
19268 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
19269 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
19271 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19272 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
19273 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
19275 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
19276 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
19277 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19278 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
19279 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
19280 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
19282 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
19283 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
19284 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
19285 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
19286 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19288 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19289 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
19290 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
19291 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
19294 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
19295 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
19296 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19298 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
19299 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
19300 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
19301 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19303 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19304 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
19305 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
19306 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
19307 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
19308 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19310 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
19311 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
19312 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
19313 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
19315 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
19316 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
19317 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
19318 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
19319 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
19321 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
19322 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
19323 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
19324 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
19325 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
19326 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
19327 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
19328 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
19329 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
19332 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
19333 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
19334 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
19335 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19337 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
19338 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
19339 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
19341 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19342 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
19343 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
19344 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19345 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
19346 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
19347 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19348 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
19349 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19351 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19352 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
19353 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
19354 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
19355 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
19356 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
19357 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
19358 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
19359 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
19360 Christian, patch by teor.
19362 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
19363 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
19364 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
19365 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
19367 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
19368 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
19369 patch by "cypherpunks".
19370 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
19372 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
19373 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19375 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
19376 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
19377 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
19378 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
19380 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
19381 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
19382 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
19385 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19386 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
19387 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
19388 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
19389 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
19390 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19392 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
19393 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
19394 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
19395 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
19397 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
19398 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
19399 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
19400 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
19402 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19403 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
19404 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
19405 17744. Patch from zerosion.
19406 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
19407 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
19408 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
19409 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
19410 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
19413 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
19414 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
19415 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
19417 o Removed features:
19418 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
19419 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
19420 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
19423 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
19425 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
19426 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
19429 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
19430 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
19431 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
19432 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
19433 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
19435 o Major features (security, Linux):
19436 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
19437 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
19438 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
19439 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
19440 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
19442 o Major features (directory system):
19443 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
19444 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
19445 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
19446 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
19447 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
19448 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
19449 "mikeperry" and "teor".
19450 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
19451 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
19452 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
19453 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
19454 15775. Patch by "teor".
19455 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
19456 "gsathya", and "karsten".
19457 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
19458 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
19459 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
19460 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
19461 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
19464 o Major key updates:
19465 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
19466 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
19469 o Minor features (security, clock):
19470 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
19471 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
19472 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
19473 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
19475 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
19476 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
19477 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
19478 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
19479 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
19480 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19482 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
19483 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
19484 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
19485 Implements ticket 17026.
19486 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
19487 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
19488 Implements feature 17986.
19489 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
19490 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
19491 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
19492 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
19493 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
19494 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
19497 o Minor features (security, RNG):
19498 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
19499 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
19500 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
19501 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
19502 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
19503 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
19504 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
19505 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
19506 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
19507 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
19510 o Minor features (accounting):
19511 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
19512 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
19513 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
19514 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
19516 o Minor features (build):
19517 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
19518 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
19519 patch from "cypherpunks."
19520 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
19521 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
19522 17549, 17921, and 17984.
19524 o Minor features (controller):
19525 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
19526 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
19527 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
19528 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
19529 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
19530 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
19531 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
19532 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
19535 o Minor features (crypto):
19536 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
19538 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
19539 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
19540 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
19541 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
19542 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
19543 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
19544 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
19545 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19547 o Minor features (directory downloads):
19548 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
19549 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
19550 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
19551 17864; patch by "teor".
19552 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
19553 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
19554 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
19556 o Minor features (geoip):
19557 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19560 o Minor features (IPv6):
19561 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
19562 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
19563 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
19564 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
19565 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
19566 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
19567 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
19568 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
19569 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
19570 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
19571 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
19573 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
19574 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19575 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
19576 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
19578 o Minor features (logging):
19579 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
19580 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
19581 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
19582 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
19585 o Minor features (portability):
19586 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
19587 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
19589 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
19590 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
19591 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
19592 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
19593 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
19595 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
19596 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
19597 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
19598 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
19599 Resolves ticket 17951.
19601 o Minor features (replay cache):
19602 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
19603 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
19605 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
19606 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
19607 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
19608 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
19609 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
19610 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
19611 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
19612 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
19613 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
19614 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
19615 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
19616 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
19617 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
19618 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
19620 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
19621 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
19622 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
19623 from "unixninja92".
19625 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19626 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
19627 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
19628 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19629 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
19630 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
19632 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
19635 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19636 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
19637 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
19638 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19639 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
19640 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
19641 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19642 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
19644 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
19645 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
19646 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
19647 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
19648 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
19649 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
19650 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19651 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
19653 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
19654 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
19656 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
19657 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
19658 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19660 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19661 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
19662 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
19663 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19665 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
19666 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
19667 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19669 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19670 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
19671 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19673 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19674 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
19675 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
19676 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
19677 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
19679 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
19680 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19682 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19683 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
19684 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
19687 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19688 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
19689 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
19690 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
19691 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
19692 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
19694 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
19695 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
19696 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
19697 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
19698 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
19700 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
19701 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
19702 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
19705 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
19706 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
19707 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
19708 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19709 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
19710 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
19711 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
19712 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
19715 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19716 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
19717 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
19718 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
19719 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
19720 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19721 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
19722 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
19723 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
19724 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
19726 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
19727 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19729 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19730 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
19731 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
19732 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
19733 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
19734 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
19735 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
19736 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
19737 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
19738 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
19740 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
19741 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
19742 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
19743 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
19745 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
19746 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
19747 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
19748 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
19749 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
19751 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
19752 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
19755 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
19756 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
19757 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
19758 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
19759 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
19760 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
19761 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
19764 o Removed features:
19765 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
19766 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
19767 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
19768 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
19769 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
19772 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
19773 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
19774 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
19775 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
19776 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19777 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
19778 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
19779 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
19780 portion of ticket 16831.
19781 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
19782 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
19783 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
19785 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
19786 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
19789 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
19790 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
19791 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
19793 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
19794 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
19795 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
19796 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
19797 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
19798 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
19801 o Minor features (geoip):
19802 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19805 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19806 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
19807 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
19808 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
19809 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
19810 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
19812 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19813 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
19814 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
19815 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
19816 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
19817 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
19818 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
19819 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19820 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
19821 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19824 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
19825 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
19826 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
19827 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
19828 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
19829 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
19830 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
19831 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
19832 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
19833 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
19834 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
19835 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
19836 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
19837 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
19838 that would make him proud.
19840 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
19842 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
19843 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
19844 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
19845 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
19846 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
19847 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
19848 of Tor invoke which others.
19850 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
19853 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
19854 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
19855 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
19856 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
19857 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
19858 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
19859 release will the the official stable release.
19861 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
19862 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
19863 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
19864 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
19865 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
19868 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
19869 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
19870 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19872 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
19873 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
19874 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
19875 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
19876 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19877 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
19878 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
19880 o Minor features (geoIP):
19881 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19884 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19885 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
19886 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
19887 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
19888 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19889 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
19890 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
19892 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19893 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
19894 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
19897 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
19898 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
19899 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
19900 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
19902 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19903 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
19904 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
19905 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
19906 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
19907 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
19908 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
19909 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
19910 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
19911 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
19912 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
19916 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
19917 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
19921 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
19922 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
19923 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
19924 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
19925 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
19927 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
19928 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
19929 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
19930 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
19932 o Major features (security, hidden services):
19933 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
19934 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
19935 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
19936 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
19937 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
19938 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
19939 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
19941 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
19942 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
19943 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
19944 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
19945 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
19946 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
19949 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
19950 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
19951 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
19952 available. Implements ticket 16535.
19953 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
19954 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
19957 o Major features (performance testing):
19958 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
19959 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
19960 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
19962 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
19963 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
19964 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
19965 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
19967 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
19968 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
19969 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
19970 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
19971 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
19972 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
19974 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
19975 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
19977 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
19978 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
19979 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
19980 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
19981 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
19983 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
19984 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
19985 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
19986 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
19987 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
19988 own. Implements feature 15482.
19989 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
19990 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
19992 o Minor features (compilation):
19993 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
19994 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
19995 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
19996 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
19997 which started requiring ECC.
19999 o Minor features (geoip):
20000 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20003 o Minor features (hidden services):
20004 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
20005 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
20006 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
20007 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
20008 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
20009 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
20010 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
20011 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
20013 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
20014 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
20015 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
20018 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
20019 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
20020 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
20021 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
20023 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
20024 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
20025 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
20026 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
20027 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
20029 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
20030 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
20031 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
20032 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
20033 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20034 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
20035 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
20036 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
20037 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
20038 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
20039 Related to ticket 16069.
20040 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
20041 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
20042 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
20043 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
20044 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
20045 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20047 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
20048 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
20049 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20050 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
20051 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
20053 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
20054 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
20055 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20057 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
20058 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
20059 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
20060 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20062 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20063 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
20064 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
20065 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
20066 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20068 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
20069 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
20070 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
20071 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
20072 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20073 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
20074 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
20075 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
20076 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
20077 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
20078 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
20081 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
20082 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
20083 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20085 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20086 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
20087 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20088 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
20089 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20091 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
20092 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
20093 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
20094 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
20096 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20097 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
20098 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
20100 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
20101 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20102 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
20103 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
20104 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
20105 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20106 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
20107 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20109 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20110 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
20111 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
20112 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
20113 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
20115 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
20116 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
20119 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20120 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
20121 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
20122 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
20123 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
20124 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
20125 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
20126 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
20127 function. Closes ticket 16763.
20128 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
20129 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
20130 suite of other microdesc functions.
20131 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
20132 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
20133 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
20134 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
20135 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
20136 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
20137 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
20138 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
20139 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
20140 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
20142 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
20143 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
20145 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
20148 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
20149 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
20150 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
20151 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
20155 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
20156 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
20157 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
20158 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
20159 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
20160 Closes ticket 13338.
20161 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
20162 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
20163 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
20164 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
20165 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
20166 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
20169 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
20170 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
20171 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
20172 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
20173 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
20174 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
20175 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
20177 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
20178 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
20179 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
20180 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
20181 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
20182 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
20183 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
20184 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
20185 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
20186 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
20187 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
20188 network before we begin.
20189 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
20190 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
20191 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
20192 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
20193 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
20194 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
20195 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
20196 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
20199 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
20200 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
20201 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
20202 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
20203 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
20204 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
20206 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
20207 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
20208 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
20210 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
20211 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
20212 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
20213 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
20214 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
20215 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
20216 Implements part of ticket 12498.
20217 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
20218 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
20219 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
20220 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
20221 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
20222 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
20223 part of ticket 12498.
20224 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
20225 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
20226 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
20227 key). Closes ticket 13642.
20229 o Major features (Hidden services):
20230 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
20231 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
20232 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
20233 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
20234 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
20236 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
20237 introduction points, which used to change the number of
20238 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
20239 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
20241 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
20242 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
20243 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
20244 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
20245 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
20246 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
20248 o Major features (performance):
20249 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
20250 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
20251 Implements ticket 16467.
20252 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
20253 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
20254 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
20255 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
20257 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
20258 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
20259 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
20260 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
20261 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
20262 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
20264 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
20265 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
20266 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
20267 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
20268 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
20269 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
20270 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
20271 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
20274 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20275 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
20276 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
20277 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
20278 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
20279 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
20280 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
20283 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
20284 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
20285 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
20286 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
20287 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
20288 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20290 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
20291 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
20292 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
20293 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
20294 by "cypherpunks_backup".
20295 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
20296 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
20297 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
20300 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
20301 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
20302 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
20303 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
20304 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
20305 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
20306 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
20308 o Minor features (client):
20309 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
20310 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
20311 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
20313 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
20314 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
20315 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
20316 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20317 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
20318 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
20319 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
20322 o Minor features (control protocol):
20323 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
20324 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
20326 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20327 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
20328 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
20329 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
20330 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
20331 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
20333 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
20334 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20335 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20337 o Minor features (hidden services):
20338 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
20339 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
20340 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
20341 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
20344 o Minor features (portability):
20345 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
20346 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
20347 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
20349 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
20350 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
20351 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
20352 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
20354 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20355 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
20356 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
20357 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20359 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
20360 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
20361 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
20362 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
20363 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
20364 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
20366 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20367 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
20368 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
20369 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20370 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
20371 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
20372 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20374 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20375 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
20376 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20378 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
20379 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
20380 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
20381 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
20383 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
20384 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
20385 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
20386 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
20388 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
20389 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
20392 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20393 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
20394 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
20395 from "cypherpunks".
20397 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
20398 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
20399 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20400 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
20401 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
20402 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
20404 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
20405 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
20406 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20408 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
20409 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
20410 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20412 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
20413 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
20414 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20415 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
20416 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20417 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
20418 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
20419 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
20420 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20422 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20423 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
20424 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
20425 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
20426 haven't supported that in ages.
20427 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
20428 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
20429 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
20430 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
20433 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
20434 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
20435 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
20436 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
20437 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
20438 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
20440 o Removed features:
20441 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
20442 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
20443 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
20444 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
20445 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
20446 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
20447 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
20448 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
20449 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
20450 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
20451 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
20452 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
20453 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
20454 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
20455 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
20456 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
20457 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
20460 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
20461 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
20462 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
20463 Closes ticket 15817.
20464 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
20465 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
20467 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
20468 default as a part of "make check".
20469 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
20470 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
20471 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
20472 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
20476 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
20477 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
20478 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
20479 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
20480 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
20481 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
20483 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
20484 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
20485 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
20486 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
20487 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
20488 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
20489 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
20490 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
20493 o Major bugfixes (stability):
20494 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
20495 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
20496 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
20497 by "cypherpunks_backup".
20498 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
20499 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
20500 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
20503 o Minor features (geoip):
20504 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20505 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20507 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
20508 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
20509 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
20510 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
20511 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
20512 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
20514 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20515 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
20516 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
20517 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
20520 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
20521 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
20522 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
20523 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
20524 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
20526 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20527 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
20528 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
20529 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
20530 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
20533 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
20534 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
20535 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
20536 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
20537 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
20538 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
20539 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
20541 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20542 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
20543 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
20544 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
20546 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20547 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
20548 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
20549 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
20550 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
20551 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
20554 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
20555 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
20556 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20559 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
20560 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
20561 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
20562 authorities should upgrade.
20564 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
20565 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
20566 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
20567 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
20570 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
20571 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
20572 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
20575 o Minor features (geoip):
20576 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20577 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20581 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
20582 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
20583 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
20584 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
20585 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
20586 the hidden services subsystem.
20588 o New system requirements:
20589 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
20590 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
20593 o Major features (controller):
20594 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
20595 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
20597 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
20598 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
20599 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
20600 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
20601 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
20602 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
20603 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
20605 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20606 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
20607 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
20608 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
20611 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
20612 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
20613 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
20614 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
20615 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
20617 o Minor features (command-line interface):
20618 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
20619 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20620 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
20621 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
20623 o Minor features (controller):
20624 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
20625 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
20626 present. Implements ticket 14840.
20627 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
20628 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
20629 Closes ticket 14845.
20630 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
20631 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
20632 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
20634 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
20635 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
20636 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
20637 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
20639 o Minor features (geoip):
20640 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20641 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20644 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
20645 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
20646 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
20647 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
20648 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
20649 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
20650 Closes ticket 15745.
20652 o Minor features (logging):
20653 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
20654 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
20657 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
20658 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
20659 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
20660 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
20662 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
20663 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
20664 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
20665 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
20666 Resolves ticket 15435.
20668 o Minor features (testing):
20669 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
20670 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
20671 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
20672 files. Closes ticket 15180.
20673 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
20674 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
20675 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
20676 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
20677 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
20678 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
20679 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
20680 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
20681 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
20682 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
20683 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
20684 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
20686 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20687 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
20688 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
20691 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
20692 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
20693 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
20695 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
20696 stderr, not stdout.
20698 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
20699 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
20700 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
20701 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
20702 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
20703 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
20704 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
20705 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20707 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20708 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
20709 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
20711 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
20712 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
20713 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
20716 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
20717 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
20718 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
20720 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
20721 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20723 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
20724 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
20725 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
20726 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
20729 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
20730 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
20731 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
20732 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
20733 recent enough Clang.
20735 o Minor bugfixes (network):
20736 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
20737 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
20738 unsuitable for public communications.
20740 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20741 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
20742 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
20743 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
20744 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
20745 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
20747 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
20748 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
20749 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
20750 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
20751 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
20752 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
20753 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
20754 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
20756 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20757 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
20758 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
20760 - Set the severity correctly when testing
20761 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
20762 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
20763 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
20764 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
20766 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20767 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
20768 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
20770 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
20771 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
20772 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
20773 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
20774 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
20777 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
20778 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
20780 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
20781 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20782 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
20783 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
20784 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
20787 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
20788 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
20789 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
20790 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
20791 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
20792 Closes ticket 14922.
20794 o Removed features:
20795 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
20796 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
20797 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
20798 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
20799 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
20800 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
20801 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
20802 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
20803 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
20804 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
20805 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
20808 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
20809 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
20810 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
20811 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
20812 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
20814 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
20815 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
20817 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
20818 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
20819 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
20820 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
20821 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
20822 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
20823 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
20825 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
20826 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20827 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
20828 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
20829 Resolves ticket 15515.
20832 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
20833 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
20834 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
20835 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
20836 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
20838 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
20839 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
20841 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
20842 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
20843 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
20844 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
20845 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
20846 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
20847 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
20849 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
20850 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20851 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
20852 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
20853 Resolves ticket 15515.
20856 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
20857 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
20858 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
20859 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
20860 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
20862 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
20863 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
20865 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
20866 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
20867 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
20868 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
20869 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
20870 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
20871 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
20873 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
20874 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20875 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
20876 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
20877 Resolves ticket 15515.
20878 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
20879 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
20880 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
20884 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
20885 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
20887 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
20888 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
20889 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
20890 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
20891 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
20892 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
20893 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
20894 bugs should be addressed.
20896 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20897 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
20898 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
20899 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20901 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
20902 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
20903 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
20905 o Major bugfixes (client):
20906 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
20907 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
20910 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20911 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
20912 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
20913 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
20914 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
20915 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20917 o Major bugfixes (portability):
20918 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
20919 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
20922 o Minor features (heartbeat):
20923 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
20924 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
20925 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
20926 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
20928 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20929 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
20930 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
20933 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
20934 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
20936 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
20937 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
20938 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
20940 o Directory authority changes:
20941 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
20942 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
20943 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
20944 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
20945 closes ticket 14487.
20947 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
20948 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
20949 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
20952 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
20953 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
20954 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
20955 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
20956 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
20957 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
20958 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
20959 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20961 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
20962 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
20963 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
20964 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20966 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20967 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
20968 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
20969 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
20971 o Minor features (controller):
20972 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
20973 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
20974 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
20976 o Minor features (geoip):
20977 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20978 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20981 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
20982 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
20983 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
20984 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20985 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
20986 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20988 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20989 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
20990 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
20991 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
20993 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
20994 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
20995 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
20996 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
20997 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
20998 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
20999 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21000 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21002 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21003 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21004 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21006 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
21007 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
21008 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
21009 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
21010 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
21014 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
21015 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
21016 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
21019 o Directory authority changes:
21020 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21021 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21022 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21023 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21024 closes ticket 14487.
21026 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
21027 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21028 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21029 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21031 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
21032 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21033 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21034 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21035 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21036 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21037 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21038 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21040 o Minor features (geoip):
21041 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21042 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21045 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
21046 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
21047 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
21048 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
21049 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
21051 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21052 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21053 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21056 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21057 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21058 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
21059 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21060 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21061 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21062 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21063 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21065 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
21066 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
21067 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
21070 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21071 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
21072 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
21074 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
21075 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
21076 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21077 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21078 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21080 o Minor features (controller):
21081 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
21082 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
21083 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
21085 o Minor features (geoip):
21086 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21087 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21090 o Minor features (logs):
21091 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
21094 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
21095 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
21096 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
21097 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21098 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
21099 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
21100 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
21101 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
21102 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
21104 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21105 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
21107 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
21110 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21111 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
21112 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
21114 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
21115 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
21116 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
21117 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21118 from "cypherpunks".
21119 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
21120 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21123 o Directory authority IP change:
21124 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21125 closes ticket 14487.
21128 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
21129 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
21130 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
21134 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
21135 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
21136 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
21137 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
21138 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
21139 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
21141 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
21142 the next version will be a release candidate.
21144 o Deprecated versions:
21145 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
21146 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
21148 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
21149 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
21150 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
21151 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
21152 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
21153 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
21155 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
21156 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
21157 Implements ticket 11485.
21159 o Major features (changed defaults):
21160 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
21161 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
21162 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
21163 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
21164 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
21165 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
21167 o Major features (directory system):
21168 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
21169 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
21170 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
21171 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
21172 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
21173 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
21174 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
21175 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
21176 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
21177 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
21178 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
21179 227. Closes ticket 10395.
21181 o Major features (guards):
21182 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
21183 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
21184 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
21185 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
21186 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
21188 o Major features (performance):
21189 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
21190 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
21191 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
21192 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
21193 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
21194 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
21195 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
21196 Implements ticket 9682.
21198 o Major features (relay):
21199 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
21200 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
21201 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
21203 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
21204 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21205 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21206 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21208 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
21209 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
21210 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
21211 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
21212 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
21213 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
21214 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
21216 o Minor features (build):
21217 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
21218 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
21219 Resolves ticket 13037.
21221 o Minor features (controller):
21222 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
21223 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
21225 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
21226 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
21227 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
21228 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
21229 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
21230 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
21232 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
21233 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
21234 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
21235 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
21236 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
21237 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
21238 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
21239 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
21240 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
21241 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
21243 o Minor features (geoip):
21244 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
21245 GeoLite2 Country database.
21247 o Minor features (guard nodes):
21248 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
21249 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
21250 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
21252 o Minor features (hidden service):
21253 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
21254 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
21255 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
21256 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
21257 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
21258 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
21259 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
21260 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
21262 o Minor features (interface):
21263 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
21264 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
21265 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
21267 o Minor features (logging):
21268 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
21269 Resolves ticket 6852.
21270 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
21271 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
21272 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
21274 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
21275 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
21277 o Minor features (stability):
21278 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
21279 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
21282 o Minor features (systemd):
21283 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
21284 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
21286 o Minor features (testing networks):
21287 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
21288 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
21289 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
21290 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
21291 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
21292 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
21294 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
21295 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
21296 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
21297 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
21298 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
21300 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
21301 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
21302 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
21303 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
21304 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
21306 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
21307 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
21308 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
21309 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21310 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
21311 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
21312 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
21313 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21315 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
21316 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
21317 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
21318 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21319 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
21320 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21321 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
21322 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
21324 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
21325 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
21326 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
21329 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
21330 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
21331 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
21332 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
21333 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21335 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
21336 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
21337 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
21338 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
21339 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21342 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
21343 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
21344 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
21345 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
21346 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
21347 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
21348 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
21349 Addresses ticket 14188.
21350 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
21351 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
21352 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
21353 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
21354 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
21355 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
21356 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
21357 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
21358 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21360 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21361 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
21362 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
21363 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
21364 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
21365 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21366 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
21367 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21369 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
21370 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
21371 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
21372 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
21373 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21374 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
21375 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
21376 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21377 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
21378 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21379 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
21380 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21381 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21383 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
21384 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
21385 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
21386 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
21387 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
21388 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
21389 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
21390 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
21391 state, and key files.
21392 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
21393 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
21396 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21397 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
21398 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
21399 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
21400 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21401 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
21402 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
21403 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21404 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
21405 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
21406 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21408 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21409 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
21410 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21411 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
21413 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
21414 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
21416 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
21417 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
21418 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
21419 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
21420 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
21421 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21423 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
21424 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
21425 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
21426 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21427 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
21428 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
21429 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21430 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
21431 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
21432 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21434 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21435 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
21436 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
21438 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
21439 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
21441 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
21442 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
21443 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
21444 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
21445 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21447 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
21448 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
21449 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
21450 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
21453 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
21454 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
21455 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
21458 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21459 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21460 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21462 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
21463 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
21464 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
21465 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
21466 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
21467 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
21468 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
21470 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
21471 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
21474 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
21475 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
21476 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
21478 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
21479 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
21480 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
21483 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21484 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
21485 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
21486 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
21487 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
21488 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
21489 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
21490 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
21491 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
21493 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
21494 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
21496 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
21500 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
21501 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
21502 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
21503 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
21504 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
21505 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
21507 o Downgraded warnings:
21508 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
21509 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
21511 o Removed features:
21512 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
21513 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
21514 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
21515 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
21516 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
21520 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
21521 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21522 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
21523 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
21524 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
21525 (existing behavior).
21526 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
21527 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
21528 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
21529 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
21530 Closes ticket 14107.
21531 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
21532 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21533 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
21534 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
21536 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
21537 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
21538 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21541 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
21542 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
21543 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
21544 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
21545 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
21546 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
21548 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
21549 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
21550 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
21551 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
21553 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
21554 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
21555 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
21556 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
21557 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
21558 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
21560 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
21561 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
21562 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
21563 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
21564 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
21565 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
21566 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
21569 o Major features (hidden services):
21570 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
21571 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
21572 Closes ticket 13667.
21573 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
21574 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
21575 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
21576 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
21577 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
21578 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
21579 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
21580 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
21581 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
21582 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
21583 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
21585 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
21586 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
21587 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
21588 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
21589 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
21590 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
21593 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21594 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
21595 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
21596 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
21597 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
21598 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
21600 o Directory authority changes:
21601 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21602 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21603 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21605 o Major removed features:
21606 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
21607 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
21608 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
21609 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
21611 o Minor features (client):
21612 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
21613 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
21614 Resolves ticket 13315.
21616 o Minor features (controller):
21617 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
21618 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
21621 o Minor features (geoip):
21622 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21625 o Minor features (hidden services):
21626 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
21627 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
21628 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
21629 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
21630 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
21631 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
21633 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
21634 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
21635 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
21637 o Minor features (systemd):
21638 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
21639 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
21640 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
21641 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
21643 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
21644 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
21645 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
21646 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
21647 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
21650 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
21651 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
21652 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
21653 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
21654 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
21656 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
21657 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
21658 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
21661 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
21662 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
21663 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
21664 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
21665 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
21667 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
21668 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
21669 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21671 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21672 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
21673 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
21674 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
21675 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
21677 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
21678 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
21681 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21682 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
21683 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
21684 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
21685 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
21686 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
21687 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
21688 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
21689 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
21690 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
21691 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
21692 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
21693 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
21694 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
21697 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21698 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
21699 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
21700 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
21701 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
21702 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
21704 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21705 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
21706 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
21707 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
21709 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
21710 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21712 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21713 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
21714 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
21715 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
21718 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
21719 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
21720 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
21721 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
21722 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
21723 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
21725 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
21726 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
21727 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
21728 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
21729 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21730 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
21731 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
21732 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
21733 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
21734 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
21735 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
21736 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
21737 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
21738 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
21739 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
21740 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
21741 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
21742 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
21743 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
21744 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21745 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
21746 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
21747 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
21748 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
21749 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
21750 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
21751 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
21752 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21753 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
21754 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
21755 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
21756 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
21758 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
21759 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
21760 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
21761 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
21762 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21764 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21765 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
21766 with a function instead.
21767 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
21768 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
21769 Closes ticket 13172.
21770 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
21771 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
21772 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
21773 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
21774 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
21775 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
21776 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
21777 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
21778 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
21779 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
21780 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
21781 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
21785 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
21786 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
21787 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
21788 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
21789 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
21790 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
21791 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
21792 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
21793 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
21794 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
21795 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
21796 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
21799 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
21800 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
21801 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
21802 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
21803 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
21804 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
21806 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
21810 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
21811 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
21812 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
21813 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
21814 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
21815 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
21816 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
21817 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
21818 of introducing infinite download loops.
21820 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
21821 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
21822 with 0.2.5.x for now.
21824 o New compiler and system requirements:
21825 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
21826 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
21827 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
21828 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
21830 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
21831 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
21832 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
21833 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
21834 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
21835 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
21836 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
21837 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
21838 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
21840 o Removed platform support:
21841 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
21842 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
21843 Closes ticket 11446.
21845 o Major features (bridges):
21846 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
21847 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
21848 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
21851 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
21852 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
21853 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
21854 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
21857 o Major features (directory system):
21858 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
21859 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
21860 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
21861 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
21863 o Major features (sample torrc):
21864 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
21865 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
21866 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
21867 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
21868 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
21869 generally useful "sample torrc".
21871 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
21872 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
21873 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21875 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
21876 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
21877 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
21878 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
21879 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21881 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
21882 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
21883 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
21884 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
21886 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
21887 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
21888 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
21889 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
21890 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
21891 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
21894 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
21895 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
21896 document. Implements feature 10427.
21898 o Minor features (client):
21899 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
21900 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
21901 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
21902 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
21904 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21905 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
21906 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
21907 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
21908 argument more than once.
21909 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
21910 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
21911 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
21912 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
21913 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
21914 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
21916 o Minor features (logging):
21917 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
21918 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
21919 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
21920 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
21921 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
21922 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
21923 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
21924 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
21925 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
21927 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
21928 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
21929 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
21930 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
21932 o Minor features (relay):
21933 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
21934 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
21935 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
21937 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
21938 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
21939 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
21940 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
21942 o Minor features (testing networks):
21943 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
21944 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
21945 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
21946 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
21947 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
21950 o Minor features (validation):
21951 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
21952 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
21953 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
21954 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
21955 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
21956 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
21957 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
21958 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
21960 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
21961 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
21962 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
21963 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21965 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21966 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
21967 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
21968 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21970 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
21971 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
21972 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
21974 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
21975 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
21976 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
21978 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
21979 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21980 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
21981 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
21982 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21983 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
21984 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21986 o Minor bugfixes (client):
21987 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
21988 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
21989 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21990 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
21991 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21992 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
21993 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
21994 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
21996 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
21997 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
21998 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
21999 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
22000 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
22002 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
22003 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
22004 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
22006 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22007 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
22008 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
22009 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
22010 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
22012 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
22013 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
22014 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
22015 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22016 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
22017 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
22018 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22019 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
22020 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
22021 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
22022 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
22025 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
22026 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
22027 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
22028 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
22029 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22031 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
22032 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
22033 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22034 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
22035 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
22038 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
22039 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
22040 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22041 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
22042 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
22043 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22045 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22046 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
22047 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
22048 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22050 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
22051 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
22052 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
22053 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22055 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
22056 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
22057 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
22058 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
22061 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
22062 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
22063 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22066 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
22067 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22068 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
22069 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
22070 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
22073 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22074 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
22075 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
22077 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
22078 Resolves ticket 12205.
22079 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
22080 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
22081 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
22082 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
22084 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
22085 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
22086 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
22088 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
22089 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
22091 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
22092 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
22093 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
22094 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
22095 or_options_t structure.
22098 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
22099 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
22100 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
22101 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
22104 o Removed features:
22105 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
22106 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
22107 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
22108 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
22109 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
22110 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
22111 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
22112 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
22113 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
22115 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
22116 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
22118 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
22119 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
22120 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
22121 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
22122 anymore, and ignore it.
22125 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
22126 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
22127 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
22128 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
22129 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
22130 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
22131 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
22132 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
22133 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
22134 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
22135 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
22136 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
22138 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
22139 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
22140 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
22142 o Distribution (systemd):
22143 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
22144 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
22145 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
22146 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
22147 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22149 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
22150 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
22152 o Removed features (directory authorities):
22153 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
22154 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
22155 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
22156 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
22157 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
22158 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
22159 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
22160 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
22161 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
22163 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
22164 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
22165 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
22166 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
22169 o Testing (test-network.sh):
22170 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
22171 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
22173 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
22175 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
22176 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
22177 Partially implements ticket 13161.
22180 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
22181 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
22183 It adds several new security features, including improved
22184 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
22185 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
22186 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
22187 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
22188 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
22189 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
22190 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
22191 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
22192 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
22193 and features mentioned below.
22195 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
22196 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
22198 o Deprecated versions:
22199 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
22200 attention for some while.
22203 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
22204 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
22205 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
22206 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
22207 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
22208 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
22210 o Major security fixes:
22211 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
22212 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
22213 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
22215 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
22216 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
22217 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
22218 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
22221 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
22222 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
22223 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
22224 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22226 o Compilation fixes:
22227 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
22228 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
22229 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
22231 o Downgraded warnings:
22232 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
22233 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
22236 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
22237 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
22238 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
22239 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
22240 (which does affect Tor).
22242 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
22243 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
22244 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
22245 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
22247 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
22248 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
22249 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
22250 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
22253 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
22254 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
22255 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
22256 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
22257 the directory authorities.
22260 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
22261 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
22262 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
22263 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
22264 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
22265 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
22266 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
22267 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
22268 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
22269 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
22270 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
22271 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22273 o Directory authority changes:
22274 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22277 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
22278 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
22279 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
22280 the directory authorities.
22283 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
22284 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
22285 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
22286 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
22287 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
22288 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
22289 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
22290 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
22291 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
22292 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
22293 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
22294 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22296 o Directory authority changes:
22297 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22299 o Minor features (geoip):
22300 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22304 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
22305 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
22306 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
22307 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
22308 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
22310 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
22311 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
22312 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
22313 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
22314 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
22315 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
22316 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
22317 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
22318 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
22319 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
22320 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
22321 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
22322 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
22323 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22324 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
22325 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
22327 o Major bugfixes (relay):
22328 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
22329 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22330 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22331 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
22332 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
22333 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
22334 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22336 o Minor features (bridge):
22337 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
22338 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
22340 o Minor features (geoip):
22341 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22344 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22345 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
22346 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
22347 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
22348 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
22349 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
22350 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22351 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
22352 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
22353 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
22354 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
22355 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
22356 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
22357 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
22358 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
22360 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
22361 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
22362 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22363 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
22364 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
22366 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22367 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
22368 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22369 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
22370 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22373 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22374 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
22375 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
22376 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
22377 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
22378 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
22379 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
22380 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22381 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
22382 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
22383 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
22386 o Distribution (systemd):
22387 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
22388 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
22389 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
22390 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
22391 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
22392 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
22393 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
22394 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
22395 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22399 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
22400 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
22402 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
22406 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
22407 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
22408 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
22409 us closer to a release candidate.
22411 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
22412 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
22413 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
22414 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
22415 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
22417 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
22418 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
22419 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
22420 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
22421 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
22422 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
22423 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
22424 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
22425 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
22429 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
22430 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
22431 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
22432 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
22433 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
22434 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
22435 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
22436 to build circuits".
22439 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
22440 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
22441 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
22442 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
22443 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
22444 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
22445 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
22446 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22448 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
22450 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
22451 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
22452 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
22453 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
22454 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
22455 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
22456 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
22457 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
22458 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
22459 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22462 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
22463 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
22464 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
22465 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
22467 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
22468 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
22469 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
22472 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
22473 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
22474 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
22475 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
22478 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
22479 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
22480 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
22481 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
22482 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
22483 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
22484 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
22485 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
22486 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
22487 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
22490 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
22491 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
22492 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
22493 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
22494 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
22495 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
22496 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
22497 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
22501 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
22502 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
22503 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
22504 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
22505 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
22506 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
22507 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
22508 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
22509 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22510 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
22511 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
22512 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
22513 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
22516 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22520 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
22521 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
22522 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
22523 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
22524 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
22525 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
22528 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
22529 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
22530 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
22531 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
22532 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
22533 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
22534 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
22535 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
22536 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
22537 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
22538 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
22539 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
22540 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22542 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
22543 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
22544 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
22545 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
22548 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
22549 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
22550 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
22552 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
22553 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
22554 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
22555 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
22556 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
22557 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
22558 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
22559 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
22560 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
22561 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
22562 router's identity is not forgeable.
22564 o Major bugfixes (relay):
22565 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
22566 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
22567 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
22568 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
22569 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
22570 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
22571 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
22572 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
22573 bugfix on every version of Tor.
22575 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
22576 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
22577 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
22578 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
22581 o Minor features (diagnostic):
22582 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
22583 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
22584 help diagnose bug 7164.
22585 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
22586 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
22587 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
22588 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
22589 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
22591 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
22592 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
22593 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
22594 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
22595 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
22596 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
22597 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
22599 o Minor features (security, memory management):
22600 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
22601 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
22602 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
22603 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
22604 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
22605 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
22607 o Minor features (security):
22608 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
22609 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
22610 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
22611 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
22613 o Minor features (build):
22614 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
22615 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
22616 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
22618 o Minor features (other):
22619 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22622 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
22623 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
22624 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
22625 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
22626 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22628 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
22629 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
22630 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
22631 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
22632 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
22633 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
22634 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
22635 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
22636 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22637 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
22638 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
22639 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
22641 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22642 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
22643 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22644 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
22645 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
22646 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
22647 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
22648 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
22649 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
22650 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
22651 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22652 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
22653 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
22654 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
22655 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
22656 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
22657 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
22658 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
22661 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
22662 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
22663 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
22664 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
22665 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
22666 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
22667 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22669 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
22670 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
22671 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22672 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
22673 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22674 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
22675 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22676 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
22677 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
22679 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
22680 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
22682 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
22683 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
22685 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
22686 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
22687 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
22688 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
22689 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
22690 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22691 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
22692 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
22693 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
22695 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
22696 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
22697 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
22698 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
22699 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
22700 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22701 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
22702 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
22703 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22704 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
22705 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
22706 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22707 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
22708 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
22709 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
22710 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
22711 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
22712 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22714 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
22715 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
22716 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
22717 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
22718 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
22719 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22720 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
22721 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
22722 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
22725 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22726 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
22727 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
22728 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
22729 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22731 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22732 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
22733 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
22734 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
22736 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
22737 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
22738 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
22739 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22740 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
22741 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
22742 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
22743 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
22745 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
22746 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
22747 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
22748 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
22751 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
22752 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
22753 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
22754 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
22755 versions. Found by "skruffy".
22756 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
22757 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
22758 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
22761 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
22762 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
22763 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
22764 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
22767 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
22768 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
22769 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
22770 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
22772 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
22773 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
22774 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
22776 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
22777 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
22778 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22780 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22781 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
22782 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22783 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
22784 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
22788 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
22789 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
22790 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
22791 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
22794 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
22795 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
22796 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
22797 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
22799 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
22800 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
22802 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
22803 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
22804 caches don't get confused.
22807 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
22808 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
22809 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
22810 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
22811 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
22814 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
22815 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
22816 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
22817 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
22818 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
22819 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
22823 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
22824 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
22825 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
22826 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
22827 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
22828 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
22829 of RAM, and several others.
22831 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22832 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
22833 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
22834 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
22835 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
22837 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
22838 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
22839 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
22840 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
22843 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22844 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
22845 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
22846 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
22847 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
22848 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
22849 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22850 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
22851 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
22852 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
22853 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
22854 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
22855 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
22856 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
22857 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
22858 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
22859 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
22860 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
22861 Resolves ticket 11438.
22863 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
22864 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
22865 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
22866 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
22867 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
22868 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22870 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22871 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
22872 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22874 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22875 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
22876 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22878 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22879 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
22880 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
22881 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22883 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22884 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
22885 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
22887 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22888 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
22889 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22892 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
22893 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
22894 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
22895 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
22898 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22899 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
22900 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
22901 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
22903 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22904 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
22905 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
22906 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
22908 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22909 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
22910 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
22914 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
22915 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
22916 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
22917 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
22918 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
22919 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
22920 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
22921 the Linux sandbox code.
22923 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
22924 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
22925 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
22927 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
22928 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
22930 o Major features (security):
22931 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
22932 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
22933 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
22934 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
22935 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
22936 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
22937 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
22938 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
22940 o Major features (relay performance):
22941 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
22942 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
22943 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
22944 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
22945 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
22946 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
22947 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
22948 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
22949 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
22950 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
22952 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
22953 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
22954 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
22955 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
22956 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
22957 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
22958 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
22960 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
22961 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
22963 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
22964 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
22965 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
22966 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
22967 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
22968 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
22969 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22970 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
22971 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
22972 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
22973 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
22974 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
22975 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
22976 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
22977 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
22978 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
22979 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
22980 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
22981 Resolves ticket 11438.
22983 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
22984 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
22985 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
22986 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22988 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
22989 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
22990 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
22991 10267; patch from "yurivict".
22992 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
22993 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
22994 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
22995 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
22996 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
22997 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
22999 o Minor features (security):
23000 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
23001 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
23002 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
23003 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
23006 o Minor features (log verbosity):
23007 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
23008 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
23009 Resolves ticket 5286.
23010 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
23011 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
23012 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
23013 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
23014 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
23015 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
23016 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23017 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23018 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23020 o Minor features (relay):
23021 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
23022 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
23023 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
23025 o Minor features (controller):
23026 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
23027 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
23029 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
23030 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
23031 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
23033 o Minor features (bridge client):
23034 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
23035 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
23036 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
23038 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23039 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
23040 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
23041 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
23042 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
23043 still referenced by a live node_t object.
23045 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
23046 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
23047 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
23048 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
23050 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
23051 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
23052 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
23053 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
23056 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
23057 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23058 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23060 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
23061 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
23062 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
23063 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23064 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
23065 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
23066 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23068 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
23069 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
23070 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
23071 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23072 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
23073 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
23074 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23075 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
23076 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
23077 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
23078 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23079 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
23080 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
23083 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
23084 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
23085 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
23086 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
23087 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
23089 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
23090 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
23091 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
23094 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23095 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23096 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23098 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23099 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
23100 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23102 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23103 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
23104 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
23105 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23107 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
23108 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
23109 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23110 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
23111 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
23113 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
23114 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
23115 early. Fixes bug 10081.
23117 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
23118 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
23119 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23120 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
23121 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23122 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
23123 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
23124 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
23126 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
23127 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
23128 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
23129 should never have affected anyone in practice.
23131 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
23132 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
23133 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23135 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
23136 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
23137 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
23138 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
23139 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
23140 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
23141 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
23142 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
23143 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
23144 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
23145 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
23146 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
23147 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
23148 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
23150 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
23151 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
23152 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
23153 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
23154 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
23155 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
23156 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
23157 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
23161 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
23162 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
23163 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
23164 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23165 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
23166 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23167 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23168 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23170 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
23172 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23173 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
23174 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
23175 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
23176 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
23179 o Deprecated versions:
23180 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
23181 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
23182 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
23183 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
23186 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
23187 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
23188 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
23189 Patch from Dana Koch.
23192 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
23193 Resolves ticket 11070.
23196 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
23197 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
23198 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
23199 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
23200 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
23203 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
23204 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
23206 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
23207 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
23208 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
23209 streams attached to each circuit.
23211 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
23212 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
23213 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
23214 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
23215 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
23216 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
23217 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
23218 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
23219 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
23220 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
23221 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
23222 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
23223 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
23225 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
23226 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
23227 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23229 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
23230 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
23231 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
23232 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
23233 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
23234 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
23235 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
23236 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
23237 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
23239 o Minor features (other):
23240 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
23241 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
23242 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
23243 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
23244 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
23245 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
23246 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
23247 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
23248 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23251 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
23252 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
23253 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
23254 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
23255 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
23256 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
23257 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
23258 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23260 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23261 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
23262 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
23263 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
23264 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23265 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
23266 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
23267 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
23269 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
23270 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
23271 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
23272 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
23273 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
23274 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
23275 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
23276 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
23277 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
23278 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
23279 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
23280 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23282 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
23283 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
23284 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23285 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
23286 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
23287 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
23288 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
23289 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
23290 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23291 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
23292 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
23293 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
23294 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
23295 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
23297 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23298 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23300 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
23301 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
23302 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
23303 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
23304 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
23305 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
23306 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23307 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
23308 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
23309 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
23310 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
23311 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23312 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
23313 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
23315 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
23316 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
23317 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
23318 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23321 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
23322 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
23323 the rest of bug 10841.
23326 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
23327 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
23328 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
23329 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
23330 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
23331 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
23332 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
23333 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
23334 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
23335 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
23336 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
23337 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23338 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
23339 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
23340 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23342 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23343 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
23344 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
23346 o Test infrastructure:
23347 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
23348 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
23349 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
23350 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23353 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
23354 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
23355 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
23356 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
23358 o Major features (client security):
23359 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
23360 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
23361 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
23362 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
23363 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
23364 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
23367 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
23368 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
23369 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
23370 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23372 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23373 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
23374 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
23375 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
23376 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
23379 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
23380 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
23382 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
23383 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
23384 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
23385 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
23386 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
23387 GeoLite2 Country database.
23390 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
23391 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
23392 bugfix on every released Tor.
23393 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
23394 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
23395 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
23396 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23397 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
23398 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
23399 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23400 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
23401 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
23402 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23403 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
23404 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
23405 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23406 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
23407 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23409 o Documentation fixes:
23410 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
23411 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23414 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
23415 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
23416 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
23417 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
23418 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
23419 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
23420 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
23421 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
23423 o Major features (client security):
23424 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
23425 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
23426 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
23427 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
23428 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
23429 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
23430 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23431 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23432 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23433 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23434 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23435 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23437 o Major features (bridges):
23438 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
23439 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
23440 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
23441 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
23442 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
23443 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
23444 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
23445 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
23448 o Major features (other):
23449 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
23450 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
23451 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
23452 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
23453 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
23454 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
23455 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
23456 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
23457 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
23458 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
23459 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
23460 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
23463 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
23464 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
23465 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23466 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
23467 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
23468 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
23469 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23471 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
23472 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
23473 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
23474 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
23475 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
23476 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
23477 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
23478 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
23479 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
23481 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
23482 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23483 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
23484 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
23485 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
23486 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
23488 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23489 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
23490 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
23491 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
23492 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
23493 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
23496 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
23497 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
23498 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
23499 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
23500 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
23501 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
23502 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
23504 o Minor features (security):
23505 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
23506 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
23509 o Minor features (config options and command line):
23510 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
23511 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
23512 Implements ticket 10060.
23513 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
23514 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
23515 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
23517 o Minor features (controller):
23518 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
23519 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
23520 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
23521 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
23522 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
23525 o Minor features (build):
23526 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
23527 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
23528 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
23529 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
23530 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
23531 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
23532 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
23534 o Minor features (testing):
23535 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
23536 the unit test scripts.
23537 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
23538 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
23539 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
23540 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
23542 o Minor features (log messages):
23543 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
23544 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
23545 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
23546 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
23547 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
23548 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
23549 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
23550 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
23551 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
23552 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23554 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23555 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
23556 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
23557 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
23558 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
23559 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
23560 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
23561 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
23562 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
23563 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23565 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23566 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
23567 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
23568 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
23571 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23572 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
23573 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
23574 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
23575 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23577 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23578 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
23579 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
23580 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
23581 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
23582 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
23583 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
23585 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
23586 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
23587 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
23588 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
23589 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
23590 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
23591 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23592 Reported by "mr-4".
23593 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
23594 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
23595 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
23596 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23598 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
23599 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
23600 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
23601 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
23602 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
23603 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
23604 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
23605 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
23606 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
23607 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
23608 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23610 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
23611 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
23612 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
23613 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
23614 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
23615 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
23616 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
23617 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
23618 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
23619 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
23621 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
23622 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
23623 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
23624 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
23627 o Minor bugfixes (build):
23628 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
23629 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
23630 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
23631 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
23632 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
23634 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
23635 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23637 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23638 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
23639 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
23640 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23642 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23643 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
23644 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
23645 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23646 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
23647 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
23648 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
23649 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
23650 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
23651 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
23652 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
23653 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
23654 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
23655 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
23657 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
23658 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
23659 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23660 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
23661 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
23662 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
23664 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23665 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
23666 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23667 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
23668 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
23669 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
23670 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
23671 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
23672 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
23673 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23674 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
23675 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23677 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23678 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
23679 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
23680 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
23681 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
23682 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23683 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
23684 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
23685 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
23686 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
23687 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
23688 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
23689 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
23690 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
23691 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
23692 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
23695 o Removed code and features:
23696 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
23697 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
23698 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
23699 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
23700 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
23701 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
23703 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
23704 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
23705 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
23706 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
23707 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
23708 part of a fix for bug 10841.
23710 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23711 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
23712 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
23713 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
23714 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
23715 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
23716 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
23717 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
23718 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
23719 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
23720 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
23723 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
23724 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
23725 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
23726 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
23727 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23729 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23730 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
23731 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
23732 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
23733 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
23734 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
23735 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
23738 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
23739 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
23740 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
23743 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
23744 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
23745 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
23746 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
23747 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
23748 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
23749 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
23751 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
23752 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
23755 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
23756 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
23757 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
23758 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
23759 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
23760 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
23761 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
23762 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
23764 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
23765 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23766 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
23767 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
23768 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
23769 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
23772 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
23773 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23774 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
23775 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
23776 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
23779 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
23780 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
23781 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
23782 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
23783 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
23784 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
23785 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
23786 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
23788 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
23789 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
23790 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
23791 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
23792 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
23793 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
23794 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
23795 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
23796 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
23797 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
23798 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
23799 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
23800 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
23801 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
23802 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
23803 security, and privacy fixes.
23806 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
23807 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
23808 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
23809 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
23812 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
23813 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
23814 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
23815 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
23816 them to solve bug 6033.)
23819 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
23820 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
23821 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
23822 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
23823 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
23824 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23825 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
23826 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
23828 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
23829 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
23830 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
23831 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23833 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
23834 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
23835 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23836 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
23837 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
23838 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
23839 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
23840 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
23841 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
23842 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23843 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
23844 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23846 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
23847 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
23848 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
23849 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
23850 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
23851 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23852 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
23853 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
23854 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
23855 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
23856 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
23857 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
23858 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
23859 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
23860 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
23861 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
23864 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
23865 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
23866 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
23867 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
23868 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
23869 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
23870 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
23871 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
23872 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
23873 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
23874 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
23875 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
23876 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
23877 Implements part of proposal 222.
23879 o Minor features (other):
23880 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
23881 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
23882 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
23883 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
23884 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
23885 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
23886 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
23887 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
23888 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23890 o Documentation fixes:
23891 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
23892 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
23893 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
23894 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
23895 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
23896 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
23899 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
23900 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
23901 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
23902 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
23903 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
23904 release of the new branch.
23906 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
23907 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
23908 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
23910 o Major features (security):
23911 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
23912 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
23913 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
23914 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
23915 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
23916 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
23917 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
23918 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
23919 Google Summer of Code.
23920 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
23921 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
23922 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
23923 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
23924 them to solve bug 6033.)
23926 o Major features (other):
23927 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
23928 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
23929 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
23930 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
23931 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
23933 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
23934 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
23935 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
23936 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
23937 Implements ticket 8530.
23938 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
23939 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
23942 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
23943 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
23944 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
23945 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
23946 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
23947 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23948 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
23949 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
23950 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23951 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
23952 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
23953 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
23954 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23957 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
23958 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
23959 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
23960 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
23961 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
23962 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
23963 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
23964 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
23965 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
23966 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
23970 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
23971 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
23972 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
23973 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
23974 invoking the other functions it calls.
23975 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
23976 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
23977 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
23978 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
23980 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
23981 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
23982 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
23983 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
23984 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
23985 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
23986 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
23987 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
23988 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
23989 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
23990 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
23991 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
23992 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
23993 Implements part of proposal 222.
23995 o Minor features (config options):
23996 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
23997 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
23998 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
23999 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
24000 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
24001 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
24002 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
24003 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
24004 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
24005 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
24006 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
24007 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
24008 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
24009 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
24010 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
24011 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
24012 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
24015 o Minor features (build):
24016 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
24017 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
24018 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
24019 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
24020 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
24023 o Minor features (other):
24024 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
24025 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
24026 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
24027 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
24028 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24029 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
24030 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
24031 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
24032 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
24033 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
24034 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
24035 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
24036 Closes ticket 8109.
24037 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24040 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24041 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24042 bugfix on every released Tor.
24043 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
24044 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
24045 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
24046 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
24047 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
24048 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
24050 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
24051 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
24052 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
24053 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24054 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
24055 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
24056 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
24057 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24059 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
24060 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
24061 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
24062 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
24063 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
24065 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
24066 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24068 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
24069 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
24070 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
24072 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
24073 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
24074 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
24075 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
24076 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24078 o Minor code improvements:
24079 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
24080 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
24082 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
24083 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
24084 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
24085 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
24086 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24088 o Removed features:
24089 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
24090 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
24091 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
24092 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
24094 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24095 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
24096 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
24097 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24098 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
24099 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
24100 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
24101 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
24102 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
24103 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
24104 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24105 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
24106 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
24107 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
24108 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
24109 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
24112 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
24113 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24114 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
24115 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
24116 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
24117 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
24118 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
24121 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
24122 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
24123 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
24124 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
24125 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
24126 Implements ticket 9574.
24129 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
24130 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
24131 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24132 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
24133 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
24134 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
24135 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
24136 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
24137 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24138 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
24139 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
24140 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
24144 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
24145 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
24146 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
24147 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
24149 o Minor fixes (config options):
24150 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
24151 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
24152 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
24153 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
24154 message is logged at notice, not at info.
24155 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
24156 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
24157 or we just won't work.)
24160 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
24161 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
24162 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
24163 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24166 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
24167 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24168 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
24171 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
24172 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
24173 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24174 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
24175 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24176 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
24177 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
24179 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
24180 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24181 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
24182 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
24185 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
24186 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
24187 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24188 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
24189 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
24190 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
24191 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
24192 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
24193 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
24194 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
24195 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24196 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
24197 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
24200 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24203 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
24204 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24205 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24206 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24209 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
24210 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
24211 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24214 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
24215 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
24216 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
24219 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
24220 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
24221 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24224 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
24225 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
24226 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
24227 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
24228 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
24229 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
24231 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
24232 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
24233 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
24234 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
24235 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
24236 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24238 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
24239 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
24240 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24243 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
24244 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
24245 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
24246 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
24247 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
24249 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
24250 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
24251 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
24252 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
24253 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
24254 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
24255 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
24257 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
24258 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
24259 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
24261 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
24262 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
24266 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
24267 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
24268 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
24270 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
24271 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
24272 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
24273 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
24274 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
24275 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
24277 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
24278 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
24279 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
24280 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
24281 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
24282 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
24283 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24286 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
24287 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
24288 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
24289 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
24290 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
24291 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
24292 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24293 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
24294 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24295 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
24296 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
24297 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24298 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
24299 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
24301 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
24302 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
24303 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
24304 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
24307 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24308 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
24309 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
24310 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
24311 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
24312 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
24314 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
24315 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
24319 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
24320 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
24321 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
24322 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
24323 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
24324 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
24325 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24327 o Removed documentation:
24328 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
24329 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
24331 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24332 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
24333 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
24334 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
24337 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
24338 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
24339 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
24340 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
24341 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
24342 variety of other issues.
24345 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
24346 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
24347 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
24348 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
24349 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
24350 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24351 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
24352 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
24354 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
24355 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
24356 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
24358 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
24359 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
24360 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
24361 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24362 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
24363 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
24364 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24366 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
24367 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
24368 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
24369 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
24370 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
24371 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
24372 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
24373 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24374 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
24375 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
24376 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
24377 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
24378 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24379 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
24380 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
24381 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
24382 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
24383 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
24384 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
24385 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
24386 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24388 o Major bugfixes (other):
24389 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
24390 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
24391 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
24392 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24395 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
24396 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
24397 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
24398 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
24400 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
24401 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
24403 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24405 o Minor features (build):
24406 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
24407 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
24409 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
24410 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
24412 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
24413 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
24414 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
24417 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24418 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
24419 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24420 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24421 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
24422 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
24423 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24424 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
24425 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
24426 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24427 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
24428 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
24429 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
24430 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
24433 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
24434 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
24435 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
24436 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
24437 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
24438 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
24439 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
24440 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
24441 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
24442 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
24443 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
24444 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
24445 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
24446 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24447 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24449 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24450 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
24451 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24452 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
24453 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
24454 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
24455 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
24456 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24457 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
24458 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
24459 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
24460 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
24461 Should help resolve bug 8235.
24462 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
24463 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
24464 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
24465 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24467 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
24468 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
24469 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
24470 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
24471 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
24472 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
24473 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
24474 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
24477 o Minor bugfixes (config):
24478 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
24479 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
24481 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
24482 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
24483 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24484 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
24485 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
24486 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
24487 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24488 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
24489 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
24490 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24491 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
24492 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
24493 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24494 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
24495 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
24498 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
24499 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
24500 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
24501 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
24502 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
24503 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
24504 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
24505 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
24507 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
24508 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
24509 or at least make it more diagnosable.
24510 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
24511 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
24512 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
24513 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24515 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
24516 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
24517 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
24518 the relaxed timeout log message.
24519 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
24520 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
24521 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
24523 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
24524 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
24525 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24526 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
24527 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24528 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
24529 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
24532 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
24533 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
24534 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
24535 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
24536 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24537 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
24538 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24539 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
24540 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
24541 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
24542 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
24543 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
24544 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24545 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
24546 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
24547 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
24548 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24550 o Documentation fixes:
24551 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
24552 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
24553 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
24554 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
24555 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
24556 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
24557 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
24558 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
24561 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
24562 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
24566 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
24567 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
24568 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
24569 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
24571 o Major features (directory authorities):
24572 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
24573 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
24574 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
24575 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
24576 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
24577 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
24578 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
24579 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
24580 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
24581 Implements ticket 8151.
24583 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
24584 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
24585 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
24586 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
24587 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
24589 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24590 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
24591 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
24592 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
24593 whether authentication information is present, causing all
24594 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
24595 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
24597 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
24598 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
24599 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
24600 bugs 1913 and 1992.
24601 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
24602 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
24603 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
24604 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
24605 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
24606 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
24607 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
24608 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
24609 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
24610 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
24611 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
24612 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
24613 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
24614 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
24615 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
24616 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
24617 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
24618 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
24621 o Minor features (portability):
24622 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
24623 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24624 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
24625 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
24626 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
24627 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
24628 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
24629 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24631 o Minor features (other):
24632 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
24633 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
24634 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
24635 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
24636 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
24637 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
24638 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
24639 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
24641 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24643 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24644 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
24645 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
24646 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
24647 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
24648 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
24649 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
24650 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
24651 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
24652 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
24654 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
24655 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
24656 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
24657 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24659 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24660 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
24661 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
24662 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
24663 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
24664 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
24665 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
24667 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
24668 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
24669 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
24670 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
24671 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
24673 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
24674 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
24675 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
24676 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
24678 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24679 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
24680 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
24683 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
24684 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
24685 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24686 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
24688 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
24689 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24690 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
24691 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24693 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
24694 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
24695 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
24696 this is CID 718634.
24697 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
24698 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
24699 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
24700 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
24702 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
24703 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
24704 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24705 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
24706 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
24707 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
24708 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24710 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24711 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
24715 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
24716 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
24717 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
24718 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
24719 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
24722 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
24723 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
24724 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
24725 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
24727 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
24728 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
24729 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
24733 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
24734 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
24735 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
24736 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
24737 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
24738 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
24739 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
24740 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
24741 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
24742 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
24743 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
24744 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
24745 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
24748 o Major features (relay):
24749 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
24750 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
24751 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
24752 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
24753 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
24754 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
24755 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
24757 o Major features (portability):
24758 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
24759 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
24760 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
24761 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
24762 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24765 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
24766 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
24767 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
24768 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
24769 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
24770 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
24772 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
24773 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
24774 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
24775 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
24776 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
24777 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
24778 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
24779 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
24781 o Minor features (path selection):
24782 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
24783 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
24784 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
24785 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
24786 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
24787 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
24788 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
24789 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
24790 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
24791 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
24792 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
24793 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
24794 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
24795 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
24796 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
24797 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
24798 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
24799 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
24800 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
24802 o Minor features (log messages):
24803 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
24804 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
24805 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
24806 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
24809 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
24810 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
24811 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24812 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
24813 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
24814 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
24815 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
24816 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
24817 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
24818 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24819 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
24820 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24822 o Build improvements:
24823 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
24824 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
24825 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
24826 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
24827 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
24828 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
24829 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
24830 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
24831 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
24832 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
24833 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
24834 than to perform erroneously.
24836 o Removed features:
24837 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
24838 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
24839 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
24841 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
24842 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
24843 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
24846 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24847 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
24849 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
24850 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
24854 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
24855 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
24856 work more robustly.
24859 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
24860 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
24861 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
24865 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
24866 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
24867 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
24868 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
24871 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
24872 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
24873 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
24874 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
24875 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
24876 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
24877 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
24878 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
24879 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
24880 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
24881 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
24882 closes ticket 7199.
24884 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
24885 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
24886 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
24887 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
24888 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
24889 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
24890 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
24891 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
24892 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
24893 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
24894 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
24896 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
24897 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
24898 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
24900 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
24901 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
24902 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
24904 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
24906 o Major features (better link encryption):
24907 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
24908 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
24909 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
24910 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
24911 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
24912 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
24915 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
24916 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
24917 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
24918 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
24919 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
24920 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
24921 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
24923 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
24924 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
24925 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
24926 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
24928 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
24931 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
24932 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
24933 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24936 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
24937 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
24938 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
24939 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
24940 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
24941 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
24942 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
24943 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
24944 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24946 o Minor features (testing):
24947 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
24948 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
24949 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
24951 o Minor features (path bias detection):
24952 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
24953 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
24954 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
24955 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
24956 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
24957 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
24958 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
24959 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
24960 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
24961 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
24962 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
24963 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
24964 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
24965 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
24966 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
24967 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
24968 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
24969 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
24970 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
24971 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
24972 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
24973 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
24974 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
24975 detection capability loss.
24977 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24978 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
24979 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
24980 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
24981 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24982 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
24983 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
24984 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
24987 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24988 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
24989 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
24990 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
24991 and the different handshakes it supports.
24992 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
24993 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
24994 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
24995 any encoding is overkill.
24998 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
24999 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
25000 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
25001 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
25002 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
25003 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
25004 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
25005 and fixes a variety of other issues.
25007 o Major features (client resilience):
25008 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
25009 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
25010 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
25011 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
25012 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
25013 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
25014 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
25015 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
25016 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
25017 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
25018 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
25019 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
25020 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
25021 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
25022 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
25024 o Major features (IPv6):
25025 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
25026 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
25027 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
25028 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
25029 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
25030 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
25031 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
25032 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
25034 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
25035 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
25037 o Major features (geoip database):
25038 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
25039 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
25040 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
25041 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
25042 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
25043 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
25044 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
25045 Country database, as modified above.
25047 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
25048 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
25049 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
25050 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
25051 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
25052 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
25053 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
25054 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
25055 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
25056 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
25057 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
25058 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
25059 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
25060 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
25061 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
25062 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
25063 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
25066 o Major bugfixes (other):
25067 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
25068 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
25069 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
25070 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
25071 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
25072 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
25073 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
25074 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
25076 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
25077 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
25080 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
25081 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
25082 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
25083 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
25084 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
25085 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
25086 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
25087 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
25089 o Minor features (IPv6):
25090 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
25091 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
25092 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
25093 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
25094 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
25095 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
25096 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
25097 connect to the wrong addresses.
25098 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
25099 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
25100 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
25101 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
25105 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
25106 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
25107 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
25108 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
25109 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
25110 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
25111 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
25113 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
25114 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
25115 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
25118 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
25119 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
25121 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25122 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
25123 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
25124 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
25125 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
25128 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
25129 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
25130 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
25131 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
25132 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
25133 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
25134 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
25135 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
25137 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
25138 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
25139 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
25140 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
25141 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
25142 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
25143 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
25144 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
25145 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
25146 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
25147 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
25150 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25151 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25152 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25153 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25154 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25155 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25156 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25157 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25158 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25159 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25162 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
25163 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
25167 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
25168 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
25169 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
25170 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
25173 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
25174 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
25176 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25177 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25178 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25179 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25180 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25181 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25182 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25183 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25184 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25185 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25188 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
25190 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
25191 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
25192 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
25193 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
25194 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
25197 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
25198 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
25199 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25200 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
25201 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
25203 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
25204 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25205 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
25206 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
25207 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
25208 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
25209 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
25211 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
25212 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25213 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
25214 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
25215 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
25216 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25217 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
25218 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25220 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25221 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
25222 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
25223 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
25224 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
25225 present the same extensions.)
25228 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
25229 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
25230 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
25231 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
25232 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
25234 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
25235 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
25236 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
25237 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
25239 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
25240 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
25241 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
25242 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25244 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
25245 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
25246 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
25247 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
25248 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
25249 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
25250 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
25251 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
25252 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25254 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
25255 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
25256 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
25257 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
25258 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25261 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
25262 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
25263 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
25265 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25266 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
25268 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
25269 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
25273 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
25274 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
25275 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
25276 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
25279 o Major bugfixes (security):
25280 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
25281 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
25282 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
25284 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
25285 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
25286 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
25287 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25290 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
25291 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
25292 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
25293 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
25294 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
25295 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
25296 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
25297 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25300 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
25301 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
25302 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
25303 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25306 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
25307 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
25308 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
25309 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
25310 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
25311 scheduling algorithms.
25313 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25314 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
25315 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
25317 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25318 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
25319 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
25320 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
25321 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
25322 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
25323 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
25324 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
25325 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
25326 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
25327 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
25329 o Internal abstraction features:
25330 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
25331 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
25332 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
25333 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
25334 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
25335 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
25336 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
25337 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
25338 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
25339 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
25340 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
25341 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
25342 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
25343 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
25344 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
25345 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
25346 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
25348 o Required libraries:
25349 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
25350 strongly recommended.
25353 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
25354 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
25355 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
25356 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
25357 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
25358 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
25359 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
25360 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
25361 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
25363 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25364 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
25365 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
25366 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
25367 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
25368 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
25369 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
25370 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25371 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
25372 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
25373 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
25374 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
25375 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
25376 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
25377 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25380 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
25381 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
25382 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
25383 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
25384 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
25385 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
25386 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
25387 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
25388 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
25389 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
25390 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
25391 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25392 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
25393 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
25394 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25395 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
25396 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
25397 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
25398 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
25400 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
25401 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
25402 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
25403 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
25404 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
25405 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
25406 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
25409 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
25410 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
25411 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
25412 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
25414 o New directory authorities:
25415 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
25416 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
25418 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
25419 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
25420 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
25421 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
25422 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
25423 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
25424 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
25425 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
25426 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
25427 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
25428 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
25431 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
25432 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
25433 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
25435 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25436 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
25437 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
25438 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25439 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
25440 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
25441 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25442 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
25443 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
25445 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25446 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
25447 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
25448 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
25449 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
25450 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
25451 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
25452 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
25453 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
25454 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
25455 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
25456 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
25457 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25458 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
25459 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
25460 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
25461 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
25462 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
25464 o Documentation fixes:
25465 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
25468 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
25469 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
25470 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
25471 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
25474 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
25475 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
25476 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25479 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
25480 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
25481 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
25482 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
25483 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
25484 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
25485 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
25486 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25488 o Security features:
25489 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
25490 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
25491 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
25492 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
25493 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
25494 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
25495 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
25496 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
25497 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
25501 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
25502 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
25503 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
25506 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
25507 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
25508 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25509 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
25510 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25511 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
25512 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
25513 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
25514 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
25515 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
25516 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25517 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
25518 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
25519 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
25521 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
25522 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25523 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
25524 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
25525 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25527 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
25528 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
25529 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
25530 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25531 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
25532 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
25533 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25534 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
25535 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
25536 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
25537 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
25538 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
25539 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
25540 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25541 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
25542 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
25543 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25544 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
25545 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
25546 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
25548 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25549 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
25550 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
25551 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
25552 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
25553 testable, and a little less fragile too.
25554 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
25555 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25557 o Documentation fixes:
25558 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
25559 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
25563 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
25564 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
25568 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
25569 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
25570 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25573 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
25574 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
25578 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
25579 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
25583 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
25584 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
25585 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25586 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
25587 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
25588 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
25589 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
25593 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
25594 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
25595 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
25596 log messages less noisy.
25599 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
25600 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
25604 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
25605 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
25606 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
25607 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
25608 last time we raised it).
25611 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
25612 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
25614 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
25615 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
25616 part of ticket 6736.
25617 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
25618 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
25619 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
25623 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
25624 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
25625 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25626 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
25627 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
25629 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
25630 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25631 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
25632 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
25633 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25634 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
25635 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
25636 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25637 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
25638 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25639 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
25640 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25642 o Removed features:
25643 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
25644 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
25645 bunch of compatibility code.
25647 o Code refactoring:
25648 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
25649 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
25650 the ORPort and the DirPort.
25653 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
25654 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
25655 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
25656 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
25658 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
25659 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
25660 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
25662 o Major features (bridges):
25663 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
25664 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
25665 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
25668 o Major features (IPv6):
25669 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
25670 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
25671 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
25672 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
25673 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
25674 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
25675 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
25676 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
25677 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
25679 o Major features (build):
25680 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
25681 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
25682 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
25683 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
25684 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
25685 fixes by Jim Meyering.
25686 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
25687 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
25688 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
25690 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
25691 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
25692 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
25693 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
25694 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
25695 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
25696 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
25697 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
25698 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
25699 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
25700 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
25702 o Minor features (streamlining);
25703 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
25704 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
25706 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
25707 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
25708 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
25709 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
25710 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
25711 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25713 o Minor features (controller):
25714 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
25716 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
25717 Implements ticket 4971.
25719 o Minor features (IPv6):
25720 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
25721 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
25722 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
25723 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
25724 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
25726 o Minor features (log messages):
25727 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
25728 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
25729 Resolves ticket 6758.
25730 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
25731 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
25732 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
25733 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25734 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
25735 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
25736 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
25738 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
25739 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
25740 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
25741 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
25742 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
25745 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25746 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
25747 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
25748 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
25749 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
25751 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
25752 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
25753 Implements ticket 5529.
25754 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
25755 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
25756 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
25757 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
25758 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
25759 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
25760 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
25761 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
25762 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
25763 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
25765 o New requirements:
25766 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
25767 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
25768 from a source distribution.)
25771 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
25772 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25773 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
25774 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
25775 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
25776 and cleans up other smaller issues.
25778 o Major bugfixes (security):
25779 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
25780 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
25781 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
25782 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
25783 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
25784 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
25785 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
25786 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
25787 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
25788 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
25789 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
25790 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
25791 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
25792 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
25793 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
25794 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
25798 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
25799 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
25800 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
25801 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25802 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
25803 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
25804 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
25805 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
25806 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
25807 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25810 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
25811 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
25812 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
25813 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
25814 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25815 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
25816 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
25817 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
25818 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
25819 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
25820 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
25822 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
25823 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
25824 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
25826 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
25827 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
25828 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
25829 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
25830 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25831 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
25832 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
25833 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
25834 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25835 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
25836 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25837 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
25838 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
25839 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
25842 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25843 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
25844 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
25845 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
25846 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25847 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
25848 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
25849 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
25850 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
25851 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
25852 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
25853 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
25854 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
25855 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
25856 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
25859 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
25860 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
25861 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
25862 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
25863 Resolves ticket 6732.
25866 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
25867 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
25868 attack that could in theory leak path information.
25871 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
25872 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
25873 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25874 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
25875 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
25876 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
25877 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
25878 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
25879 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
25880 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
25881 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
25882 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
25883 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
25884 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
25887 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
25888 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25889 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
25890 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
25893 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
25894 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
25895 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25896 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
25897 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
25898 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25899 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
25900 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
25901 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
25902 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
25903 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
25904 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
25905 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
25906 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
25907 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
25908 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
25909 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
25912 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
25913 a little more useful.
25914 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
25915 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25916 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
25917 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
25918 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
25919 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
25920 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
25923 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
25924 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25925 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
25926 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25927 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
25928 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
25932 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
25933 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
25934 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
25935 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
25936 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
25939 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
25940 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
25941 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
25944 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
25946 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
25948 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25949 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
25950 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
25951 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
25952 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
25955 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
25956 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25957 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
25958 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
25959 since the beginning of Tor.
25962 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
25963 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
25964 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
25965 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
25966 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
25967 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
25968 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
25969 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25970 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
25971 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
25974 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
25975 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
25978 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
25979 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25980 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
25981 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
25984 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
25985 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25986 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
25987 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
25988 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
25989 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25991 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25992 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
25993 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
25994 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
25995 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
25996 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
25997 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25998 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
25999 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
26000 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
26001 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
26002 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
26003 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
26004 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26005 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
26006 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
26007 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26008 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
26009 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26011 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26012 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
26013 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
26015 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
26016 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26017 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
26018 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
26020 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
26021 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26022 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
26023 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26024 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
26025 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
26026 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26027 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
26028 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26029 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
26030 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26031 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
26032 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
26033 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26034 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
26035 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
26038 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
26039 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
26040 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
26041 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
26042 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
26045 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
26046 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
26047 options. Closes bug 4748.
26050 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
26051 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
26052 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
26053 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
26054 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
26058 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
26059 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
26061 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
26062 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
26063 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
26064 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
26065 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
26066 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
26067 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
26068 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
26069 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
26072 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
26073 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
26074 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
26075 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
26076 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
26077 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
26078 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
26079 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
26082 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
26083 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
26084 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
26085 case for flushing marked connections.
26086 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
26087 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26088 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
26089 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
26090 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
26091 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
26092 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26093 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
26094 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26095 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
26096 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
26097 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
26098 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26099 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
26100 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
26101 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
26102 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26103 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
26104 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26105 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
26106 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
26107 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
26108 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26109 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
26110 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
26112 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
26113 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26114 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
26118 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
26119 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
26120 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
26121 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
26122 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
26123 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
26124 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
26125 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
26126 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
26127 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
26128 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
26129 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
26130 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
26131 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
26132 Addresses ticket 5458.
26133 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26135 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26136 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
26137 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
26140 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
26141 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26142 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26146 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26147 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26148 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26149 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26150 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26151 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26152 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26153 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26154 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26155 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26156 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26159 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
26160 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
26163 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
26164 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
26167 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
26168 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26169 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26170 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
26171 that get us closer to a release candidate.
26173 o Major bugfixes (general):
26174 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26175 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26176 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26177 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26178 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26179 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26180 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26181 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
26182 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
26184 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
26185 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
26186 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
26187 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
26190 o Major bugfixes (clients):
26191 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
26192 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
26193 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
26194 which introduced predicted ports.
26195 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26196 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26197 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26198 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26199 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
26200 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
26201 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
26202 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
26203 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
26204 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
26205 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26206 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
26207 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
26209 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
26210 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
26211 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
26212 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
26213 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
26214 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
26215 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
26216 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
26217 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
26218 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
26219 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
26223 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
26224 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
26225 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
26226 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
26227 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
26228 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
26229 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
26230 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
26231 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
26232 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
26233 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
26234 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
26235 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
26236 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
26238 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
26239 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
26240 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
26241 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
26242 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
26243 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
26244 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
26245 sure. Closes bug 5139.
26246 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
26247 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
26248 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
26249 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
26250 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
26251 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
26252 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26254 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
26255 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
26256 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
26257 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
26258 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
26259 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
26260 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
26261 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
26262 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
26263 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
26264 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
26265 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
26266 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
26267 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
26268 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
26269 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
26270 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
26271 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26272 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
26273 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
26275 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26276 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
26277 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
26278 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
26279 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
26280 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
26281 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
26282 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
26283 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
26284 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
26285 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
26286 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
26287 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
26289 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
26290 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26291 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
26292 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
26294 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
26295 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
26296 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26297 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
26298 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
26299 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26300 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
26301 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
26302 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
26303 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
26305 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
26306 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
26307 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
26309 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26310 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
26311 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
26312 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
26313 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
26314 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
26315 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
26316 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
26317 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
26318 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
26319 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
26320 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26321 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
26322 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
26323 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
26324 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26325 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
26326 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
26327 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
26328 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
26330 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
26331 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
26332 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26333 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
26334 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
26335 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
26337 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
26338 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
26339 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
26341 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
26342 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
26343 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
26344 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26345 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
26346 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26348 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26349 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
26350 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
26352 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
26353 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
26354 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26355 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
26356 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
26357 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26358 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
26359 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
26360 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
26361 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26362 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
26363 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
26364 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
26365 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
26366 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
26367 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
26369 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
26370 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
26371 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26372 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
26373 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
26374 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26375 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
26376 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26377 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
26378 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
26379 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
26380 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26381 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
26384 o Documentation fixes:
26385 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
26386 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
26387 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
26388 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
26389 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
26390 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
26393 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
26394 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
26398 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
26399 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
26400 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
26401 and fixes several crash bugs.
26403 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
26404 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
26405 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
26406 those packages and upgrade anyway.
26408 o Directory authority changes:
26409 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
26410 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
26414 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
26415 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
26416 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
26417 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
26418 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
26419 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
26420 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
26421 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
26422 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
26423 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
26424 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
26425 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
26426 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
26427 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
26428 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
26429 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
26430 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
26431 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
26432 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
26433 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
26434 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
26435 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
26436 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
26437 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
26438 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
26439 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
26440 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
26443 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
26444 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26445 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
26446 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
26448 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
26449 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
26451 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
26452 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
26453 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
26454 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
26455 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
26456 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
26457 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
26458 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
26461 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
26462 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
26463 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
26464 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
26465 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
26466 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
26467 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
26468 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
26469 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
26470 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
26471 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
26472 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
26473 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
26474 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
26475 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
26476 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
26477 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
26478 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
26479 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
26480 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
26481 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
26482 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
26483 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
26484 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
26485 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
26486 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
26487 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
26488 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
26489 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
26490 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
26491 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
26492 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
26493 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26494 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
26495 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26496 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
26497 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
26498 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
26499 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
26500 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26501 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
26502 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26503 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
26504 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
26505 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
26506 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26508 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
26509 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
26510 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
26511 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
26512 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
26513 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
26514 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
26515 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
26516 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
26517 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
26518 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26519 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
26520 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26521 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
26522 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
26525 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
26526 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
26527 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
26528 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
26530 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26533 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
26534 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
26535 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
26536 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
26537 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
26538 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
26539 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
26542 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
26543 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
26544 the development branch build on Windows again.
26546 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26547 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
26548 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
26549 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
26550 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
26551 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
26552 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
26553 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
26554 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
26555 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
26556 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
26557 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
26558 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26559 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
26560 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
26562 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26563 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
26564 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
26565 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26566 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
26567 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26568 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
26569 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26570 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
26571 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
26572 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
26573 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26576 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
26577 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
26578 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
26579 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
26580 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
26581 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
26582 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
26583 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
26584 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
26586 o Removed features:
26587 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
26588 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
26589 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
26590 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
26594 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
26595 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
26596 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
26597 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
26599 o Directory authority changes:
26600 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
26604 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
26605 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26606 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
26607 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
26609 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
26610 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
26611 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
26612 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
26613 documents entirely.
26614 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
26615 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
26616 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26618 o Major features (performance):
26619 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
26620 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
26621 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
26622 much faster than other AES implementations.
26624 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
26625 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
26626 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
26627 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
26628 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
26629 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
26630 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
26631 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
26632 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
26633 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
26634 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
26635 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
26636 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
26637 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
26638 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26639 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
26640 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
26641 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
26643 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
26644 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
26645 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
26646 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26647 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
26648 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26649 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
26650 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
26651 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
26653 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
26654 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
26655 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26656 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
26657 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
26658 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26661 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
26662 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
26663 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
26664 please let us know about it.
26665 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
26666 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
26667 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
26668 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
26669 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26670 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26671 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
26672 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
26674 o Default torrc changes:
26675 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
26676 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
26678 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
26679 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
26680 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
26683 o Removed features:
26684 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
26685 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
26686 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
26687 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
26689 o Code refactoring:
26690 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
26691 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
26692 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
26693 it would be a bad idea to start.
26696 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
26697 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
26698 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
26699 that get us closer to a release candidate.
26701 o Directory authority changes:
26702 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
26705 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
26706 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
26707 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
26708 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
26709 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
26710 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
26711 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
26712 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
26713 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
26714 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
26715 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
26716 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
26717 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
26718 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
26719 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
26720 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
26722 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
26723 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
26724 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
26725 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
26726 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
26727 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26728 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
26729 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
26730 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26731 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
26732 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
26733 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
26735 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
26736 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
26737 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26738 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
26739 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
26741 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26742 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
26743 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
26744 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
26745 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
26746 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
26747 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
26748 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
26749 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
26750 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
26751 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
26752 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
26753 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26754 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
26755 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26756 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
26757 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
26758 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
26759 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
26760 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
26761 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
26762 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
26765 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26766 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
26767 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26768 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
26769 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
26770 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
26771 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
26772 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
26773 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26774 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
26775 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
26776 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
26777 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
26778 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
26779 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
26780 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
26781 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
26784 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
26785 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
26786 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26789 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
26790 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
26791 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
26792 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
26795 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
26796 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
26798 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
26799 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
26800 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
26801 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26802 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
26803 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
26804 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
26805 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26806 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
26807 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
26808 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
26809 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26812 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
26813 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
26814 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
26815 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
26816 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
26817 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
26818 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26821 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
26822 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
26823 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
26824 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26825 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
26826 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
26827 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
26828 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
26829 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
26830 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
26832 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
26833 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
26834 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
26835 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
26836 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
26837 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
26838 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
26839 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
26840 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
26843 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26844 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
26845 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
26849 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
26850 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
26851 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
26852 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
26853 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
26854 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
26857 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
26858 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
26859 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
26860 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
26861 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
26862 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
26863 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
26864 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
26866 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
26867 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
26868 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
26869 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
26870 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
26871 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
26872 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
26873 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
26875 o Major security workaround:
26876 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
26877 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
26878 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
26879 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
26880 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
26881 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
26882 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
26883 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
26884 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
26885 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
26886 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
26889 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
26890 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
26891 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
26892 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
26893 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
26894 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
26895 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
26896 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26897 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
26898 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
26899 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
26900 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
26901 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
26903 o Minor features (controller):
26904 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
26905 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
26906 file. Resolves bug 1101.
26907 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
26908 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
26909 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
26910 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
26911 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
26912 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
26914 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
26915 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
26916 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
26917 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
26918 part of ticket 3457.
26919 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
26920 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
26921 circuit-status' control-port command.
26923 o Minor features (directory authorities):
26924 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
26925 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
26926 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
26927 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
26929 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
26930 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
26931 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
26932 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
26933 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
26934 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
26935 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
26937 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
26938 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
26940 o Minor features (other):
26941 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
26942 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
26943 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
26944 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
26945 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
26946 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
26947 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
26948 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
26950 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
26951 them from the other auths.
26952 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
26953 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
26954 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
26955 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
26956 the 0.2.3.x series.
26957 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26959 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26960 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
26961 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
26962 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
26963 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
26964 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
26965 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
26966 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
26967 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
26968 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
26969 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26970 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
26971 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
26972 be disabled using the new
26973 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
26974 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26975 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
26976 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
26977 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
26978 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
26979 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
26980 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
26981 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
26982 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
26983 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
26984 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
26986 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
26987 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
26988 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
26991 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26992 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
26993 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
26995 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
26996 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
26997 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
26998 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
26999 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27000 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
27001 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27003 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
27004 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27005 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27006 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27007 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
27008 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
27009 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
27010 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
27012 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
27013 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
27014 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27015 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
27016 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
27017 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
27018 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
27019 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
27020 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
27023 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27024 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27025 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27026 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27027 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27028 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27029 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27030 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27031 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27032 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
27033 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
27034 accidentally been reverted.
27035 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
27036 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
27037 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
27038 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
27039 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
27040 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
27041 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27042 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
27043 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
27044 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27045 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
27046 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
27047 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
27048 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
27049 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27050 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
27051 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27052 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
27053 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27056 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27057 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27058 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27059 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27060 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27061 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27062 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27064 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27065 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
27066 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
27067 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
27068 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
27069 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
27070 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
27072 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
27073 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
27074 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
27075 invalid value, rather than just -1.
27076 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
27077 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
27078 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
27079 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
27080 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
27081 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
27082 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
27086 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
27087 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
27088 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27090 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27091 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27092 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27093 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27094 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27095 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27096 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27097 (which Tor does not do by default).
27099 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27100 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27101 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27102 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27103 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27105 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
27109 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27110 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27111 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27112 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27115 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
27116 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
27117 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
27118 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
27119 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
27120 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
27121 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
27122 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
27123 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27124 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
27125 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27128 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27131 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
27132 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
27133 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27135 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27136 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27137 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27138 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27139 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27140 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27141 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27142 (which Tor does not do by default).
27144 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27145 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27146 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27147 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27148 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27150 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
27151 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
27152 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
27155 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
27156 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
27157 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
27158 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
27159 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
27161 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
27162 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
27165 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27166 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27167 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27168 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27169 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
27170 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
27171 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
27172 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
27174 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
27175 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
27176 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
27177 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
27178 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
27179 close based on processing a cell on it.
27180 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27181 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27182 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27183 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27184 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
27185 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
27186 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27187 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
27188 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
27189 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
27190 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
27191 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
27192 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
27193 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
27194 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
27197 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
27198 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
27199 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
27200 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
27201 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
27202 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
27203 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
27205 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
27206 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
27207 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
27208 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
27209 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
27210 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27211 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
27212 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
27213 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27214 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
27215 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
27216 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
27217 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
27218 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27219 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
27220 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
27221 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
27222 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
27223 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27224 Reported by "troll_un".
27225 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
27226 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27227 Reported by "troll_un".
27228 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27229 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
27230 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
27231 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
27234 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
27235 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
27236 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
27237 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
27238 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
27239 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
27240 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
27241 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
27242 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
27243 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
27244 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27246 o Packaging changes:
27247 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
27248 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
27251 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
27252 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
27253 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
27254 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
27255 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
27257 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
27258 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
27260 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27261 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27262 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27263 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27264 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27265 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27266 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27267 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27268 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27271 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27274 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
27275 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
27276 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
27277 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
27278 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
27279 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
27280 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
27283 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
27284 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
27285 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
27286 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
27287 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
27288 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
27289 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
27290 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
27291 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
27292 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
27293 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
27294 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
27295 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
27296 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
27297 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
27298 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
27299 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
27300 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
27301 Resolves ticket 4526.
27302 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
27303 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
27304 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
27305 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
27306 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
27307 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
27308 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
27309 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
27310 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
27311 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
27312 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
27313 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
27314 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
27315 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
27316 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
27317 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
27320 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
27321 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
27322 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
27323 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
27324 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
27325 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
27326 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
27327 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
27328 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
27329 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
27331 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
27332 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
27333 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
27334 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
27335 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
27336 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
27337 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
27338 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
27339 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
27341 o Minor features (new/different config options):
27342 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
27343 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
27344 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
27345 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
27346 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
27347 Implements issue 933.
27348 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
27349 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
27350 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
27351 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
27352 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
27353 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
27354 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
27355 appending to the list.
27356 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
27357 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
27358 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
27359 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
27361 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
27362 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
27363 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
27364 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
27365 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
27366 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
27367 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
27368 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
27371 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
27372 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
27373 Resolves ticket 2474.
27374 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
27375 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
27376 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
27377 Required by fix for bug 3460.
27378 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
27379 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
27380 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
27381 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
27382 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
27383 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
27384 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
27385 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
27386 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
27388 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27389 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
27390 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
27392 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
27394 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
27395 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
27397 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
27398 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
27399 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27400 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
27401 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
27402 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
27403 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
27405 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
27406 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
27407 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27408 Reported by "troll_un".
27409 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
27410 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27411 Reported by "troll_un".
27412 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
27413 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
27414 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
27415 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
27417 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27418 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
27420 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
27421 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
27422 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
27423 with help from wanoskarnet.
27424 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
27425 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
27428 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
27429 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
27430 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
27431 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27433 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
27434 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
27435 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
27436 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
27437 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
27438 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
27439 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
27440 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
27443 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
27444 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
27445 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
27446 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
27447 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
27448 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
27449 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
27450 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
27451 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
27454 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
27455 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
27456 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
27457 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
27459 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27460 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27461 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27462 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27463 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
27464 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
27465 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
27466 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
27467 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
27468 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
27469 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
27470 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
27471 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
27472 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
27473 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
27474 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
27475 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
27476 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
27477 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
27478 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
27479 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
27480 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
27481 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
27482 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
27485 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
27486 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
27487 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
27488 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
27489 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
27490 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27491 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
27492 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
27495 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27496 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
27497 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
27498 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
27499 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
27500 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
27501 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
27502 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
27503 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
27504 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
27505 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
27506 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
27507 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
27508 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
27509 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
27511 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
27512 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
27513 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
27514 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
27515 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27516 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
27517 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
27518 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27519 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
27520 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
27521 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
27522 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
27523 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
27524 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27525 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
27526 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
27527 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27529 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27530 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
27531 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
27532 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
27533 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27534 Found by frosty_un.
27535 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
27536 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
27537 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
27539 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
27540 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
27541 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
27543 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
27544 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
27546 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
27547 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27550 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
27551 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
27552 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
27553 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
27554 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
27555 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
27556 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
27557 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
27558 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
27559 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
27560 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
27561 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
27562 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
27563 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
27565 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
27566 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
27567 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27569 o Packaging changes:
27570 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
27571 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
27573 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27574 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
27575 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
27576 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
27577 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
27578 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
27579 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
27580 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
27581 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
27584 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
27586 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
27587 ./src/test/bench binary.
27588 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
27589 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
27592 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
27593 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
27594 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
27598 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
27599 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
27600 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
27601 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
27602 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
27603 close based on processing a cell on it.
27604 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
27605 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
27606 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27607 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
27608 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
27609 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
27610 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
27611 cells were introduced.
27614 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
27615 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
27618 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
27619 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
27620 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
27621 users. Everybody should upgrade.
27623 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
27624 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
27627 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
27628 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
27629 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
27630 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
27631 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
27632 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
27634 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
27635 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
27636 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
27637 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
27638 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
27639 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
27640 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
27641 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
27642 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
27643 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
27644 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
27645 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
27646 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
27647 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
27648 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
27649 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
27650 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
27651 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
27654 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27655 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
27656 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
27657 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
27658 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
27659 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
27660 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
27661 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
27662 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
27663 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
27664 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
27665 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
27666 Partly fixes bug 3825.
27667 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
27668 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
27669 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
27670 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
27671 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
27672 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
27673 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
27675 o Major bugfixes (other):
27676 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
27677 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
27678 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
27679 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27680 Found by "frosty_un".
27681 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
27682 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
27683 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
27684 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
27685 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
27686 immensely in tracking this bug down.
27687 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
27688 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
27691 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27692 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
27693 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
27694 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
27695 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
27696 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
27697 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
27698 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
27699 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
27700 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
27701 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
27702 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
27703 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
27704 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27705 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
27706 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
27707 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
27708 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
27709 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
27710 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
27711 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
27713 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27714 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
27715 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
27716 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27717 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
27718 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
27719 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
27720 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
27721 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
27722 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
27723 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
27726 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
27727 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
27728 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
27729 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
27730 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
27731 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
27732 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
27733 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
27734 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
27735 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
27736 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
27737 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
27738 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
27739 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27741 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27742 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
27743 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
27744 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
27745 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
27746 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
27747 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
27748 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
27751 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
27752 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
27753 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
27755 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
27756 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
27757 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
27758 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
27759 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
27760 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
27761 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
27762 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
27763 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
27764 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
27765 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
27766 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
27767 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
27769 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
27770 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
27771 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
27772 currently connected to them.
27774 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
27775 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
27776 remain; see for example proposal 188.
27778 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
27779 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
27780 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
27781 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
27782 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
27783 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
27784 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
27785 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
27786 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
27787 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
27788 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
27789 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
27790 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
27791 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
27792 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
27793 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
27794 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
27795 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
27798 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
27799 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
27800 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
27801 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
27802 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
27803 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
27804 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
27805 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27806 when bridges were introduced.
27807 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
27808 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
27809 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
27810 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27811 Found by "frosty_un".
27814 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
27815 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
27817 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
27818 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
27819 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
27820 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
27821 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
27822 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
27823 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
27826 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
27827 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
27828 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
27829 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
27830 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
27831 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
27832 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
27833 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
27834 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
27835 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
27836 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
27837 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
27838 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
27839 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
27840 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
27841 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
27842 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
27843 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
27845 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
27846 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
27847 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
27848 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27849 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
27850 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
27851 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
27852 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
27853 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
27854 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
27855 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
27856 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27859 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
27860 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
27861 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
27862 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27865 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
27866 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
27867 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
27868 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
27869 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
27871 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27872 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
27873 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
27874 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
27875 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
27876 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
27877 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
27878 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
27879 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
27880 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27882 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27883 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
27884 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
27885 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
27886 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
27887 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
27888 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
27889 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
27890 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
27891 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
27892 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
27893 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
27894 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
27895 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
27896 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27897 Found by "frosty_un".
27898 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
27899 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
27900 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
27901 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
27902 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
27903 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
27904 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
27905 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
27906 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
27907 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
27908 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
27909 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
27910 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27911 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
27912 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
27913 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
27914 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
27915 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
27916 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
27918 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27919 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
27920 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
27921 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
27922 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
27923 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
27924 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
27925 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
27927 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
27928 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
27929 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
27930 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
27931 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
27932 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
27933 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
27934 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
27935 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
27936 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
27937 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
27938 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
27940 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
27941 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27942 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
27943 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27944 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
27945 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27946 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
27947 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
27948 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
27950 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
27952 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
27953 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
27954 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
27955 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27956 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
27957 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
27958 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
27959 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27961 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
27962 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
27963 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
27964 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
27965 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
27967 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27968 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
27969 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
27970 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
27971 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27974 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
27975 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
27976 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
27977 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
27978 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
27981 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
27982 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
27983 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
27984 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
27985 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
27986 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
27987 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27988 when bridges were introduced.
27991 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
27992 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
27993 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27995 o Major features (networking):
27996 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
27997 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
27998 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
27999 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
28000 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
28004 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28005 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28006 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28008 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
28009 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28010 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28011 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28012 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28014 o Minor features (diagnostics):
28015 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
28016 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
28019 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
28020 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
28021 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
28022 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
28023 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
28024 listed in the network consensus and republish.
28026 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28027 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28028 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28029 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28031 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
28032 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28033 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28034 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28035 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28036 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28037 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28038 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28039 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28040 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28041 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28043 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28044 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28045 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28046 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28047 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28048 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28049 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28050 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28051 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28052 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28054 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28055 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28056 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28057 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28058 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28059 fixes part of bug 2442.
28060 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28061 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28062 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28064 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28065 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28066 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28067 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28068 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28070 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28071 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28072 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28073 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28074 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28077 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
28078 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
28079 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
28083 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
28084 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
28085 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
28086 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
28087 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
28088 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
28089 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
28092 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
28093 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
28094 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
28095 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
28096 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
28097 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
28098 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
28101 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
28102 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
28103 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
28104 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
28105 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
28106 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
28107 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
28108 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
28109 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28111 o Code refactoring:
28112 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
28113 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
28116 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
28117 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
28118 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
28119 reachable from Iran again.
28122 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28123 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28124 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28126 o Minor features (security):
28127 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28128 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28129 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28130 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28131 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28132 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28133 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28134 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28135 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28136 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28139 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28140 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28141 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28142 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28143 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28144 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28145 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28146 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28147 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28149 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
28150 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
28151 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
28152 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
28153 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
28154 raised by bug 3898.
28155 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28156 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28157 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28158 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28159 fixes part of bug 2442.
28160 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28161 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28162 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28164 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28165 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28166 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28167 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28168 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28171 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
28172 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
28173 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28174 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28175 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28176 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28179 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
28180 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
28181 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
28182 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
28183 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
28184 bufferevent-based networking backend.
28186 o Major features (stream isolation):
28187 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
28188 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
28189 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
28190 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
28191 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
28192 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
28193 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
28194 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
28195 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
28196 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
28197 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
28198 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
28199 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
28200 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
28202 o Major features (other):
28203 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
28204 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
28205 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
28206 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
28207 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
28208 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
28209 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
28210 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
28211 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
28212 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
28213 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
28214 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
28215 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
28217 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28218 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
28220 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
28221 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
28222 Fixes part of bug 3752.
28223 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
28224 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
28225 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
28226 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
28227 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
28228 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
28229 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
28230 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
28231 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
28232 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
28233 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
28234 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
28235 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
28236 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
28237 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
28238 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
28239 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
28241 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
28242 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
28243 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
28244 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
28245 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
28246 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
28249 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
28250 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
28251 user. Implements ticket 1692.
28252 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
28253 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
28254 best copy data out of a buffer.
28255 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
28256 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
28257 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
28259 o Minor features (build compatibility):
28260 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
28261 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
28262 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
28264 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
28265 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28267 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
28268 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
28269 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
28270 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
28271 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
28272 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
28273 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28275 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
28276 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
28277 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
28278 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
28279 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
28280 raised by bug 3898.
28281 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
28282 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
28283 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
28286 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
28287 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
28288 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
28289 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
28290 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
28291 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
28292 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
28293 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
28294 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
28295 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
28296 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
28297 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28298 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
28299 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
28300 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
28301 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
28302 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
28303 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
28304 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
28307 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28308 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
28309 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
28313 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
28314 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
28315 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
28316 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
28317 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
28318 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
28321 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
28322 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
28323 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
28324 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
28325 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
28326 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
28327 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
28328 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
28329 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
28330 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
28332 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
28333 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
28334 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
28335 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
28336 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
28337 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
28338 many many other features and bugfixes.
28341 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
28342 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
28343 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
28346 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
28347 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
28348 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
28349 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
28350 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
28351 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
28352 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
28353 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
28356 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28359 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
28360 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
28361 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28362 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
28363 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
28364 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
28365 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
28366 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
28367 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
28368 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
28369 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
28370 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
28371 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
28372 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28373 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
28374 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
28375 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
28376 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
28380 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
28381 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
28382 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
28383 up a variety of recently introduced features.
28386 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
28387 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
28388 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
28389 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
28390 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
28391 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
28392 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
28393 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
28394 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
28395 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
28396 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
28397 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
28398 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
28399 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
28400 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
28401 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
28403 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28404 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
28405 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
28406 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
28407 order. Fixes bug 2798.
28408 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
28409 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
28410 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
28411 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
28412 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
28413 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
28417 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
28418 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
28419 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
28420 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
28422 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
28423 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
28424 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
28425 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
28426 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
28427 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
28428 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
28429 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
28430 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
28431 Implements ticket 3264.
28432 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
28433 implements ticket 3439.
28435 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28436 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
28437 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
28438 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
28439 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
28440 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
28441 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
28442 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
28443 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
28444 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
28445 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
28446 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
28447 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
28448 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
28449 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
28450 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
28451 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
28452 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
28453 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
28454 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
28455 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
28456 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
28457 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
28458 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
28459 fails. Spotted by coverity.
28460 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
28461 present. Found by coverity.
28462 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
28463 a directory cache that provides them.
28465 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28466 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
28467 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
28468 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
28469 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
28470 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
28472 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
28473 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
28474 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
28475 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
28476 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
28477 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28478 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
28479 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
28481 o Code simplification and refactoring:
28482 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
28483 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
28484 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
28485 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
28486 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
28487 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
28489 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
28493 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
28494 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
28495 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
28498 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
28499 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
28500 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
28501 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
28504 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
28505 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
28506 discovered by katmagic.
28507 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
28508 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
28509 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
28510 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28511 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
28512 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
28513 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
28514 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28515 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
28516 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
28517 fixes part of bug 3465.
28518 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
28519 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
28523 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28526 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
28527 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
28528 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
28529 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
28530 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
28533 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
28534 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
28535 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
28536 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
28537 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
28540 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
28541 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
28542 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
28543 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
28544 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
28545 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
28548 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
28549 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
28550 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
28551 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
28552 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
28553 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
28554 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
28555 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
28556 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
28557 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
28558 fixes part of bug 3407.
28559 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
28560 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
28561 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
28562 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
28563 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
28564 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
28565 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
28566 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
28567 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
28568 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
28570 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
28571 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
28572 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
28573 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
28576 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28578 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28579 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
28580 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
28582 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
28584 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
28587 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
28588 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
28589 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
28590 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
28591 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
28592 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
28596 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
28597 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
28598 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
28599 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28600 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
28601 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
28602 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
28604 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
28605 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
28606 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
28607 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
28608 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
28609 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
28610 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
28611 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
28612 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
28613 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
28614 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
28615 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
28616 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
28617 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
28618 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
28619 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
28620 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
28621 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
28622 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
28626 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
28627 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
28628 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
28629 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
28630 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
28631 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
28632 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
28633 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
28634 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
28638 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
28639 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
28640 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
28642 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
28644 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
28645 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
28646 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
28647 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
28648 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28649 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
28650 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
28651 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
28652 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
28654 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
28655 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
28656 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
28657 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
28658 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
28659 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
28661 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
28662 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
28664 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
28665 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
28666 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28669 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
28670 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
28671 Resolves ticket 3252.
28672 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
28673 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
28674 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
28675 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
28676 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
28677 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
28680 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
28681 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
28684 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
28685 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
28686 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
28689 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
28690 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
28691 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
28692 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
28693 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
28696 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
28697 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
28698 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
28699 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
28700 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
28701 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
28702 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
28703 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
28704 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
28708 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
28709 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
28710 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
28711 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
28712 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
28714 o Security/privacy fixes:
28715 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
28716 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
28717 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
28718 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
28719 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
28720 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
28721 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
28722 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
28723 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
28724 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
28725 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
28726 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28727 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
28728 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
28729 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28732 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
28733 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
28734 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
28735 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
28736 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
28737 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
28738 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
28739 part of ticket 3076.
28740 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
28741 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
28742 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
28746 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
28747 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
28748 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
28749 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
28750 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
28751 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
28752 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
28753 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
28755 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
28756 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
28757 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
28758 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
28759 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
28760 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
28761 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
28762 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
28763 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
28764 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
28765 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
28766 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
28767 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28770 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
28771 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
28772 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
28773 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
28774 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
28775 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
28776 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
28778 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
28779 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
28780 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
28781 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
28782 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
28783 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
28784 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
28785 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
28786 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
28787 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
28788 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
28789 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
28790 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
28791 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
28792 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
28793 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
28795 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
28796 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
28798 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
28799 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
28801 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
28802 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
28804 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
28805 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
28806 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28808 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
28809 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
28810 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
28811 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
28812 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
28813 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
28814 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
28815 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
28816 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
28817 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
28818 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
28820 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
28821 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
28822 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
28823 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
28824 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
28825 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
28826 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
28827 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
28828 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
28829 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
28830 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28831 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
28832 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
28835 o Removed features:
28836 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
28837 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
28838 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
28842 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
28843 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
28844 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
28845 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
28846 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
28847 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
28849 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
28850 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
28851 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
28854 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
28855 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
28856 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
28857 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
28858 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
28859 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
28860 zero-copy transports where available.
28861 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
28862 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
28863 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
28864 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
28865 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
28866 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
28867 debug it as it breaks.
28868 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
28869 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
28870 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
28871 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
28872 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
28873 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
28874 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
28875 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
28876 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
28877 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
28878 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
28879 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
28880 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
28881 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
28882 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
28883 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
28884 PortForwarding option.
28885 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
28886 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
28887 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
28888 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
28889 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
28890 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
28891 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
28894 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
28895 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
28896 Implements enhancement 1668.
28897 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
28899 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
28900 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
28901 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
28902 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
28903 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
28904 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
28905 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
28907 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
28908 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
28909 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
28910 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
28911 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
28912 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
28913 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
28915 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
28916 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
28917 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
28918 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
28919 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
28920 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
28921 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
28923 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
28924 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
28925 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
28926 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
28927 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
28928 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
28929 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
28930 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
28931 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
28932 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
28933 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
28934 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
28935 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
28936 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
28937 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
28940 o Minor features (controller):
28941 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
28942 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
28943 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
28944 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
28945 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
28946 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
28947 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
28950 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
28951 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
28952 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
28953 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
28954 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
28955 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
28956 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
28957 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
28959 o Minor packaging issues:
28960 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
28961 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
28963 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28964 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
28965 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
28966 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
28967 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
28968 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
28969 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
28970 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
28971 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
28972 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
28973 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
28974 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
28975 our library structure used to force them to link it.
28977 o Removed features:
28978 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
28979 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
28980 are no longer in use as servers.
28982 o Documentation fixes:
28983 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
28984 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
28985 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
28989 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
28990 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
28991 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
28992 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
28993 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
28994 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
28995 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
28996 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
28997 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
28998 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
29001 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
29002 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
29003 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
29004 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
29005 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
29006 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
29007 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
29008 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
29009 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
29010 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29011 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
29012 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
29013 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29014 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
29015 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
29016 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
29018 o Security and stability fixes:
29019 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
29020 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
29021 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
29022 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
29023 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
29024 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
29025 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
29026 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
29027 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
29028 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
29029 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
29030 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
29031 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29032 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
29033 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
29034 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
29037 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
29038 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
29039 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
29040 contributions to the network.
29042 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
29043 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
29044 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
29045 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
29046 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
29047 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
29048 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
29049 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
29050 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
29051 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
29052 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
29053 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
29054 connections to directory servers.
29055 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
29056 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
29057 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
29058 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
29059 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
29060 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
29061 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
29062 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
29063 information, or fetch directory information.
29064 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
29065 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
29066 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
29067 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
29068 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
29069 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
29070 unless you really want your Tor to break.
29071 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
29072 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
29073 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
29074 - When StrictNodes is 1:
29075 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
29076 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
29077 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
29078 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
29079 reachability self-tests.
29080 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
29081 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
29082 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
29083 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
29084 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29085 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
29086 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
29088 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
29089 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29090 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
29091 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
29092 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
29093 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29094 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
29095 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
29096 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
29097 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
29098 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
29101 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
29102 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
29103 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
29104 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
29105 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
29106 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29107 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
29108 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
29109 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
29110 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
29111 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
29112 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29113 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
29114 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
29115 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29116 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
29117 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
29119 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
29120 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
29121 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
29122 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
29123 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29124 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
29125 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29126 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
29127 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
29128 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
29129 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
29130 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
29131 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
29132 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
29133 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
29134 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29135 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
29136 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
29137 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
29138 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
29141 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
29142 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
29143 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
29144 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
29145 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
29146 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
29147 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
29148 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
29149 Required by fix for bug 3000.
29150 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
29151 by fix for bug 3000.
29152 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
29153 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
29155 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29156 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
29157 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
29158 send a body too). Since only server versions before
29159 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
29160 keep the workaround in place.
29161 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
29162 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
29163 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
29164 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
29165 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
29166 want to do it differently.
29167 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
29168 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
29169 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
29170 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
29171 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
29175 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
29176 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
29177 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
29178 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
29179 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
29182 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
29183 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
29184 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
29185 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
29186 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
29188 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
29189 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
29190 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
29191 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
29192 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
29193 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
29194 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
29195 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
29196 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
29197 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
29198 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
29199 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
29202 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
29203 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
29204 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
29205 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
29206 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
29207 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
29208 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
29210 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
29211 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
29212 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
29213 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
29214 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
29215 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
29216 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
29217 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
29218 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
29219 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
29220 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
29221 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
29222 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
29223 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
29224 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
29225 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
29226 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
29227 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
29228 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
29229 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
29230 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
29231 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
29232 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29235 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
29236 networkstatus vote.
29237 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
29238 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
29239 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
29241 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
29242 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
29243 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
29244 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
29246 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
29247 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
29248 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
29249 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29252 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
29253 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
29255 o Documentation changes:
29256 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
29257 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
29259 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
29262 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
29263 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
29264 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
29265 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
29266 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
29267 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
29270 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29271 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
29272 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
29273 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
29274 the rest of bug 1074.
29275 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
29276 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
29277 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
29278 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
29279 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
29280 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
29281 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29282 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
29283 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
29284 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
29285 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
29286 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
29287 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
29288 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29291 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
29292 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
29293 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
29294 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
29295 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
29296 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
29297 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
29298 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
29299 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
29300 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
29301 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
29302 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
29303 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
29304 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
29306 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29307 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
29308 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
29309 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
29310 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
29311 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
29313 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
29314 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
29315 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
29316 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
29317 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
29318 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
29319 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
29320 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
29321 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
29322 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29323 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
29324 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
29325 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
29326 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
29327 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
29328 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
29329 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
29330 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
29331 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
29332 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
29333 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
29334 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
29335 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
29336 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29337 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
29338 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
29340 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
29341 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
29342 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
29343 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
29344 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
29345 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
29347 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
29348 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
29349 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
29351 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29352 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
29353 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
29354 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
29355 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
29356 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
29357 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
29358 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
29359 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
29360 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
29361 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
29362 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
29363 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
29367 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
29368 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
29369 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
29370 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
29371 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
29372 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
29373 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
29374 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
29375 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
29376 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
29377 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
29378 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
29380 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29382 o Minor features (log subsystem):
29383 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
29384 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
29385 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
29387 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
29388 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
29390 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
29391 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
29392 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
29395 o Packaging changes:
29396 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
29397 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
29398 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
29401 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
29402 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
29403 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
29404 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
29405 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
29406 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
29409 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29410 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
29411 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
29412 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
29413 the rest of bug 1074.
29414 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
29415 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29416 Found by "piebeer".
29417 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
29418 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
29419 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
29420 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
29421 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
29422 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
29423 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29426 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
29428 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29431 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
29432 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
29433 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
29434 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
29435 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
29436 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
29437 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
29438 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
29439 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
29440 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
29441 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29443 o Packaging changes:
29444 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
29445 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
29446 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
29447 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
29448 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
29449 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
29452 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
29453 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
29454 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
29455 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
29456 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
29457 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
29460 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
29461 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29462 Found by "piebeer".
29463 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
29464 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
29465 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
29466 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
29469 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
29471 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
29472 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
29473 Implements ticket 2432.
29476 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
29477 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
29478 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
29481 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
29482 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
29483 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
29484 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
29485 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
29486 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
29488 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
29489 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
29490 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
29491 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
29493 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
29494 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
29495 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
29496 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
29497 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
29498 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
29499 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
29500 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
29502 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
29503 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
29504 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
29505 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
29506 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
29507 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
29508 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
29509 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
29510 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
29511 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
29512 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
29513 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
29514 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
29515 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
29518 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
29519 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
29520 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
29521 bug reported by doorss.
29522 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
29523 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
29524 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29525 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
29526 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
29528 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
29529 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
29530 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
29531 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
29532 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
29534 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
29535 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29536 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
29538 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
29539 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
29540 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
29541 Automake 1.7 or later.
29542 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
29543 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
29544 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
29545 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
29547 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29548 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
29549 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
29552 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29553 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
29554 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
29555 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
29557 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29558 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
29559 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
29560 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
29561 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
29562 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
29563 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
29564 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
29565 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
29567 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
29568 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
29569 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
29572 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29573 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
29574 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
29575 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
29576 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
29577 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
29578 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
29579 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
29580 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
29581 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
29582 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
29583 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
29584 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
29586 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29587 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
29591 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
29592 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
29593 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
29594 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
29595 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
29597 o Major bugfixes (security):
29598 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
29599 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
29600 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
29602 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
29603 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
29604 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
29605 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
29606 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
29607 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
29608 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
29609 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
29611 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
29612 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
29613 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
29614 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
29615 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
29616 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
29617 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
29618 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
29619 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
29620 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
29621 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
29622 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
29623 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
29624 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
29627 o Minor bugfixes (other):
29628 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
29629 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
29630 bug reported by doorss.
29631 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
29632 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
29633 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29634 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
29635 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
29637 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
29638 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
29639 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
29640 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
29641 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
29642 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
29643 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
29644 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
29645 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
29648 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29649 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
29652 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
29653 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
29654 Automake 1.7 or later.
29657 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
29658 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
29659 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
29660 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
29661 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
29664 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
29665 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
29666 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
29667 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
29668 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
29669 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
29670 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
29671 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
29672 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
29673 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
29674 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
29676 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
29677 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
29678 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
29679 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
29681 o Directory authority changes:
29682 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
29685 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
29686 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
29687 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
29688 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
29689 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
29690 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
29691 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
29692 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
29693 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
29696 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29697 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
29698 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
29699 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
29700 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
29701 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
29702 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
29703 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
29704 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
29705 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
29709 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
29710 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
29711 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
29712 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
29716 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
29717 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
29718 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
29719 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
29721 o Directory authority changes:
29722 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
29725 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29728 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
29729 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
29730 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
29731 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
29732 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
29735 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
29736 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
29737 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
29738 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
29739 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29740 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
29741 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
29742 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
29743 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
29744 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29745 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
29746 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
29747 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
29748 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
29749 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
29750 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
29751 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
29752 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29753 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
29754 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
29755 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
29756 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
29757 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
29760 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
29761 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
29762 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
29763 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
29765 o New directory authorities:
29766 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
29770 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
29771 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
29772 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
29774 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
29775 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29776 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
29777 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
29778 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
29779 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
29781 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
29782 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
29783 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
29786 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
29787 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
29788 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
29789 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
29790 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
29791 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
29792 Patch from mingw-san.
29795 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
29796 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
29797 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
29798 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
29799 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
29800 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
29803 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
29804 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
29805 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
29808 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
29809 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
29810 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
29811 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
29812 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29815 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
29816 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
29817 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
29818 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
29819 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
29820 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
29821 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
29822 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
29823 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
29826 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
29827 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
29828 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
29829 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
29830 to a stable release.
29833 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
29834 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
29835 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
29836 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29837 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
29838 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
29839 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
29840 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
29841 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29842 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
29843 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
29844 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
29845 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
29846 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
29847 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
29848 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
29849 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
29850 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
29851 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
29852 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
29853 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
29854 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
29855 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
29856 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
29857 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
29858 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
29859 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
29860 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
29861 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
29862 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
29863 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
29866 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29867 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
29868 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
29869 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
29870 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
29871 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
29872 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
29873 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
29874 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
29875 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
29876 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
29877 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
29878 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
29879 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29880 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
29881 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
29882 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
29884 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
29885 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29886 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
29887 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
29888 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
29890 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
29891 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
29892 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
29893 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
29896 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
29897 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
29898 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
29899 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
29900 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
29901 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
29902 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
29903 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29905 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29906 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
29907 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
29908 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
29909 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
29910 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
29911 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
29912 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
29913 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
29914 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
29915 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
29916 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
29917 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
29918 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
29919 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
29922 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
29923 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
29924 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
29925 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
29926 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
29927 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
29928 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
29929 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
29930 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
29933 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
29934 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
29935 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
29936 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
29937 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
29939 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
29940 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
29941 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
29942 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
29943 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
29944 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
29945 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29946 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
29947 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
29948 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
29949 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
29950 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
29951 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
29952 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
29954 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29955 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
29957 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
29958 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
29959 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
29960 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
29961 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
29962 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
29963 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
29964 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
29965 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
29966 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
29967 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
29968 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
29969 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
29970 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
29971 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
29972 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
29973 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
29974 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29976 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
29977 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
29978 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
29979 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
29980 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
29981 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
29982 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
29983 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
29984 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
29985 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
29986 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
29987 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
29988 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
29990 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
29991 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
29992 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
29993 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29996 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
29997 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
29998 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
29999 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
30000 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
30001 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
30002 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
30003 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
30004 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
30005 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
30006 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
30007 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
30008 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
30009 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
30010 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
30011 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
30012 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
30013 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
30014 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
30017 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30018 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
30019 based on the time during which we were active and not in
30020 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
30021 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
30022 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
30023 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
30024 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30026 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30027 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
30028 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
30029 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
30030 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
30031 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
30032 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
30033 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
30034 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
30035 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30038 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
30039 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
30040 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
30041 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
30043 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
30044 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
30045 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
30046 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
30047 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
30048 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
30049 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
30050 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
30051 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
30052 the longest-lived bug prize.
30053 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
30054 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
30055 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
30056 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
30057 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
30058 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
30060 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
30061 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
30062 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
30063 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
30064 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
30065 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
30069 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30070 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
30071 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
30072 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
30073 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
30074 got suppressed since the last warning.
30075 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
30076 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
30077 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
30078 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
30079 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
30080 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
30081 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
30082 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
30083 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
30084 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
30085 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
30086 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
30087 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
30088 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
30089 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
30090 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
30091 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
30092 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
30093 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
30095 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30096 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30097 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30099 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30100 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
30101 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
30102 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
30103 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
30104 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
30105 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
30106 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
30107 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
30108 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
30109 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
30110 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30111 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30112 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30113 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30115 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
30116 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
30117 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
30118 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
30119 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
30120 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30121 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
30123 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
30124 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
30125 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
30126 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
30127 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
30130 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30131 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
30132 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
30133 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
30134 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
30135 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
30136 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
30137 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
30138 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
30139 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
30140 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30141 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
30142 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
30143 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
30144 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
30145 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
30146 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
30147 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
30150 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
30153 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
30154 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
30155 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
30156 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
30157 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
30161 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
30162 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
30163 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
30164 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
30165 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
30166 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
30167 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
30168 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
30169 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
30170 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
30171 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
30172 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
30173 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
30174 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
30175 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
30176 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
30177 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
30180 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
30181 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
30182 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
30183 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
30184 they first get the Guard flag.
30185 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
30189 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30190 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
30191 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
30192 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
30193 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
30194 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
30195 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30196 Patch from mingw-san.
30197 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
30198 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
30200 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
30201 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
30202 Implements enhancement 1790.
30204 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30205 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
30206 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
30207 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
30208 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
30209 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
30210 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
30211 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
30212 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
30213 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
30214 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
30215 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
30216 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
30217 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
30218 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
30219 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
30220 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
30221 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
30222 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
30223 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
30225 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
30226 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
30227 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
30228 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30229 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30230 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30231 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
30232 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
30233 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
30234 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
30235 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
30236 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
30237 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
30239 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
30240 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
30241 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
30242 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
30243 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
30244 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30246 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30247 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
30248 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
30249 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
30250 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
30251 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
30252 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
30253 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
30254 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
30255 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
30256 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
30257 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
30259 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
30260 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
30261 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
30262 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
30263 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
30264 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
30265 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
30267 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
30269 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
30270 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
30271 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
30272 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
30273 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
30274 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
30276 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30277 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
30278 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
30279 structures and defines in or.h for now.
30280 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
30281 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
30282 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
30283 statistics code to be more easily tested.
30284 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
30285 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
30286 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30289 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
30290 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
30291 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
30292 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
30293 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
30294 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
30298 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
30299 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
30300 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
30301 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
30302 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
30303 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
30304 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
30305 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
30306 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
30307 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
30308 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
30309 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
30310 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
30312 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
30313 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
30314 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
30315 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
30316 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
30317 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
30318 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
30319 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
30320 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
30321 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
30322 can be controlled by the consensus.
30325 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
30326 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
30327 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
30328 more accurate data for many African countries.
30329 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
30330 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
30331 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
30332 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
30333 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
30334 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
30335 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
30336 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
30337 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
30338 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
30339 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
30340 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
30342 o New directory authorities:
30343 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30347 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
30348 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
30349 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
30350 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
30351 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
30352 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
30353 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
30354 what should go in a patch.
30355 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
30356 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
30357 over our stored history.
30358 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
30359 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
30360 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
30361 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
30362 file. Fixes bug 1296.
30363 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
30364 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
30365 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
30369 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
30371 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
30372 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
30373 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
30374 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
30375 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
30376 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
30377 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
30378 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
30379 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
30380 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
30381 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
30382 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30383 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
30384 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
30385 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
30386 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
30387 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
30388 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
30389 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
30390 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
30391 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
30392 two-hop circuits are actually created.
30393 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
30394 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30395 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
30396 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30399 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
30400 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
30401 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
30402 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
30403 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
30405 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
30406 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
30409 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
30410 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
30411 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
30412 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
30413 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
30414 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
30415 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
30416 their directory fetches over TLS).
30417 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
30418 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
30419 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
30420 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
30421 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
30422 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
30423 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
30424 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
30427 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
30428 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
30432 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
30433 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30434 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
30435 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
30436 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
30437 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
30438 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30441 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
30442 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
30443 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
30444 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
30445 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
30448 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
30449 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
30450 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
30451 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
30452 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
30453 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
30454 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
30455 their directory fetches over TLS).
30458 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
30459 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
30461 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
30462 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
30463 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
30464 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
30465 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
30466 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
30467 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
30468 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
30469 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
30470 hour of their uptime.
30473 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
30474 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
30475 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
30479 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
30480 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
30481 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
30482 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
30483 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
30484 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
30486 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
30487 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
30488 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
30490 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
30491 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
30495 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
30496 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
30497 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
30501 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
30502 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
30503 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
30506 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
30507 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
30508 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
30509 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
30510 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
30511 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
30512 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
30513 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
30514 about the option without breaking older ones.
30515 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
30516 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
30517 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
30518 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
30521 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
30522 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
30523 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
30524 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
30526 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
30527 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
30528 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
30531 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
30532 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
30534 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
30535 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
30536 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
30537 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
30538 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
30539 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
30540 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30541 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
30542 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
30543 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
30544 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
30547 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
30548 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30549 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
30550 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
30551 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
30552 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
30553 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30556 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
30557 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
30558 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
30559 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
30560 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
30561 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
30564 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
30565 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
30566 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
30567 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
30569 o Major features (performance):
30570 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
30571 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
30572 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
30573 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
30574 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
30575 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
30576 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
30578 o Minor features (performance):
30579 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
30580 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
30581 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
30582 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
30583 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
30587 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
30588 speeds up the build considerably.
30590 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30591 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
30592 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30593 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
30594 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30595 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
30596 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
30597 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30599 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
30600 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
30601 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
30603 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
30604 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
30605 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
30606 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
30608 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30609 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
30610 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
30611 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
30612 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
30613 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
30616 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
30617 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
30618 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
30620 o Directory authority changes:
30621 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
30622 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
30623 service directory authority) from the list.
30626 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
30627 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
30628 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
30629 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
30630 libraries in a security patch.
30631 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
30632 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
30633 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
30634 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
30636 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
30637 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
30638 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
30639 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
30640 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
30641 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
30642 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
30645 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
30646 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
30647 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
30648 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
30649 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
30650 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
30651 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
30652 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
30653 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
30654 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
30655 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
30656 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
30657 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
30659 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
30660 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
30661 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
30662 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
30663 control-spec.txt said they were.
30664 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
30665 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
30666 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
30667 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
30668 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30670 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30671 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
30672 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
30673 produce nicer HTML.
30674 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
30675 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
30676 iPhone SDK versions.
30677 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
30678 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
30679 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
30680 projects directory in svn.
30681 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
30682 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
30683 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
30684 high latency links.
30687 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
30688 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
30689 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
30691 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
30692 to the circuit build timeout.
30693 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
30694 arguments we do not recognize.
30695 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
30696 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
30697 open() without checking it.
30700 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
30701 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
30702 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
30703 several minor potential security bugs.
30706 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
30707 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
30708 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
30709 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
30710 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
30711 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
30712 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
30715 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
30716 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
30718 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
30719 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
30720 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
30721 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
30725 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
30726 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
30730 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
30731 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
30732 customized patches to run/build.
30735 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
30736 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
30737 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
30740 o Major bugfixes (performance):
30741 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
30742 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
30743 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
30744 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
30745 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
30746 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
30747 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
30750 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
30751 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
30752 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
30753 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
30754 libraries in a security patch.
30755 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
30756 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
30757 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
30758 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
30761 o Directory authority changes:
30762 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
30763 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
30764 service directory authority) from the list.
30767 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
30768 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
30771 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
30772 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
30773 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
30774 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
30775 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
30778 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
30779 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
30780 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
30784 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
30785 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
30786 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
30787 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
30788 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30791 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
30792 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
30793 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
30797 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
30798 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
30799 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
30800 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
30801 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
30803 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
30804 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
30806 o Directory authority changes:
30807 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
30810 o Major features (performance):
30811 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
30812 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
30813 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
30814 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
30815 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
30816 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
30817 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
30818 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
30819 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
30820 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
30821 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
30822 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
30823 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
30825 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
30826 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
30827 but never per-conn write limits.
30828 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
30829 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
30830 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
30831 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
30833 o Major features (relay selection options):
30834 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
30835 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
30836 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
30837 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
30838 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
30839 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
30840 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
30842 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
30843 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
30845 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
30846 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
30847 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
30848 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
30849 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
30850 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
30851 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
30852 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
30853 the network changes.
30856 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
30857 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
30858 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30861 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
30862 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
30863 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
30864 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
30865 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
30866 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
30867 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
30868 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
30869 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
30870 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
30871 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
30872 generated while acting as a relay.
30873 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
30874 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
30875 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
30876 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
30877 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
30878 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
30880 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
30881 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
30882 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
30883 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
30884 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
30885 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
30888 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
30889 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
30890 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
30892 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
30893 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
30894 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
30896 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
30897 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
30899 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
30900 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
30901 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
30903 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
30904 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
30907 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30908 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
30909 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
30910 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
30911 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
30912 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
30913 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
30914 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
30915 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
30917 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
30920 o Removed features:
30921 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
30922 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
30923 hidden service usage.
30926 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
30927 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
30928 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
30929 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
30930 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
30932 o Directory authority changes:
30933 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
30937 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
30938 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
30939 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30942 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
30943 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
30944 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
30945 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
30946 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
30949 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
30950 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
30951 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
30952 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
30953 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
30954 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
30955 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
30958 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
30959 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
30960 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30961 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
30962 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
30963 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
30965 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
30966 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
30969 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
30970 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
30971 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
30972 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
30973 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
30974 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
30977 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
30978 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
30979 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
30981 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
30982 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
30983 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
30984 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
30985 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
30986 download consensus + microdescriptors".
30987 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
30988 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
30989 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
30990 hash algorithm in the future.
30991 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
30992 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
30993 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
30994 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
30995 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
30996 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
30997 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
30998 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
30999 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
31002 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31003 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31004 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
31005 won't work unless we say we are.
31008 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
31009 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
31010 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
31011 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
31012 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
31013 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
31014 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31015 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31016 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31017 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31018 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
31019 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
31020 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
31021 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
31022 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
31023 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
31024 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
31025 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
31026 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
31027 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
31028 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
31029 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
31032 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
31033 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
31034 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
31035 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31037 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
31038 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
31040 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
31041 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
31042 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
31043 in the Vidalia Settings window.
31046 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
31047 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
31048 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
31049 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
31050 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
31052 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31053 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31055 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
31056 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
31057 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
31060 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31061 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31062 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31064 o New directory authorities:
31065 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
31067 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31070 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
31071 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31073 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31074 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31075 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31076 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31077 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31078 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31079 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31080 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31081 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31082 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31083 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31084 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31085 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31086 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31087 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31088 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31089 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
31091 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
31092 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
31093 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
31095 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
31096 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
31100 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
31101 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
31102 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
31103 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
31104 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
31107 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
31108 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31111 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31113 o Directory authorities:
31114 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
31118 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
31119 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
31120 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
31121 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
31122 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
31125 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
31126 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
31127 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
31128 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
31130 o New directory authorities:
31131 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31134 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
31135 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
31136 SSL handshake issues.
31137 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
31138 during the TLS handshake.
31139 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
31140 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
31141 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
31142 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
31143 none of which are very big.
31146 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
31148 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
31149 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31150 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
31151 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
31152 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31153 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
31154 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
31155 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
31158 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31159 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
31160 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
31161 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
31162 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
31165 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
31166 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31169 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
31170 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
31173 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
31174 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
31175 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31178 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
31179 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
31180 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
31181 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
31182 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
31183 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
31186 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
31187 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
31188 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
31189 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
31190 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
31191 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
31192 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
31193 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
31194 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
31195 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
31196 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
31197 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
31198 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
31199 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
31200 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
31201 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31202 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31203 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31206 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31207 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31211 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31212 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31213 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31214 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
31215 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
31216 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
31217 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31218 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31219 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31220 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31221 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31222 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31223 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31224 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31225 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31226 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31227 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31228 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31229 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31230 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31231 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
31233 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
31234 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
31235 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
31236 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31237 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
31238 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
31240 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
31241 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
31242 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
31245 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
31246 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
31247 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
31248 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
31249 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
31250 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
31253 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
31254 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
31255 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
31256 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
31257 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
31260 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
31261 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
31262 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
31265 o New directory authorities:
31266 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
31270 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
31271 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
31272 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
31273 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
31274 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
31277 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
31278 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
31279 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
31280 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
31281 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
31284 o New options for gathering stats safely:
31285 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
31286 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
31287 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
31288 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
31289 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
31290 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
31291 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
31292 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
31293 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
31295 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
31296 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
31297 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
31298 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
31300 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
31301 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
31302 their extra-info documents.
31305 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
31306 source files Tor was built with.
31307 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
31308 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
31309 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
31310 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
31311 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
31312 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
31314 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
31315 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
31316 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
31317 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
31318 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
31320 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
31321 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
31324 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
31325 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
31326 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
31327 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
31328 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31330 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
31331 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
31333 o Deprecated and removed features:
31334 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
31335 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
31336 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
31337 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
31338 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
31339 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
31340 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
31341 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
31343 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
31344 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
31345 via application-level web tricks.
31347 o Packaging changes:
31348 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
31349 installer bundles. See
31350 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
31351 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
31352 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
31353 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
31354 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
31355 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
31356 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
31357 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
31358 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
31359 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
31360 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
31361 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
31364 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
31365 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
31366 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
31369 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
31370 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
31371 part of patch provided by "optimist".
31374 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
31375 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
31376 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
31377 and confuse fewer users.
31380 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
31381 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
31382 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
31383 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
31384 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
31385 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
31386 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
31389 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
31390 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
31391 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
31392 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
31393 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
31394 other features and bug fixes.
31397 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
31400 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
31401 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
31402 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
31403 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
31404 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
31407 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
31408 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
31409 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
31410 failure message (oops).
31413 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
31414 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
31415 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
31416 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
31420 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
31421 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
31422 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
31423 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
31424 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
31425 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
31426 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31427 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
31428 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
31429 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
31430 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
31431 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
31432 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
31433 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
31434 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
31437 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
31438 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
31439 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
31440 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
31441 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
31442 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
31443 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
31444 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
31445 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
31446 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
31447 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
31448 Workaround for bug 1024.
31449 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
31453 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
31454 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
31455 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
31458 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
31460 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
31461 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
31462 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
31463 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
31464 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
31467 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
31468 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
31469 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
31470 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
31471 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
31472 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
31473 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
31474 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
31475 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
31476 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
31479 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
31480 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
31481 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
31482 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
31483 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
31484 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
31485 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
31486 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
31489 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
31490 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
31491 a bunch of minor bugs.
31494 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
31495 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
31496 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
31498 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
31499 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
31500 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
31501 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
31503 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
31507 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
31508 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
31509 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
31511 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31512 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
31514 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
31515 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
31517 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
31518 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
31519 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
31520 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
31521 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
31522 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
31523 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
31524 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
31526 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31527 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
31528 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
31530 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
31531 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
31532 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
31533 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
31534 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
31538 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
31539 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
31540 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
31541 of more minor bugs.
31543 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31544 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
31545 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
31546 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
31548 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31549 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
31550 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
31551 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31552 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
31553 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
31554 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
31555 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
31556 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
31557 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
31558 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
31559 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31560 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
31561 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
31562 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
31563 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
31564 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
31566 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
31567 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
31568 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
31569 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31571 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31572 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
31573 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
31576 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
31577 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
31578 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
31579 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
31580 addresses to fall out of the directory.
31583 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
31584 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
31585 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
31586 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
31588 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
31589 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
31590 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
31591 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
31592 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
31593 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
31594 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
31595 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
31596 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
31597 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
31598 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
31599 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
31600 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
31601 patch by Sebastian.
31602 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
31603 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
31606 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
31607 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
31608 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
31609 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
31610 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
31611 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
31613 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
31614 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
31615 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
31616 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
31617 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
31619 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
31622 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
31623 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
31625 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
31626 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
31627 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31628 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31629 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
31630 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
31632 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
31633 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31634 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
31635 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
31636 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
31637 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31638 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
31639 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
31640 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
31641 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
31642 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
31643 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
31647 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
31648 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
31649 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
31652 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
31653 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
31654 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31656 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
31657 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
31658 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
31659 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
31660 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
31661 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
31662 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
31663 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
31664 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
31665 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
31666 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
31667 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31668 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
31669 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
31670 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
31671 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
31672 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
31673 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
31674 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
31675 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
31676 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
31677 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
31678 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
31679 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
31680 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
31681 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
31683 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
31684 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
31685 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
31686 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
31687 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
31688 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
31689 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
31690 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
31691 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
31692 of 0. Suggested by lark.
31694 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31695 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
31696 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
31697 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
31698 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
31701 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
31703 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
31704 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
31705 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
31706 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
31709 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
31710 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
31711 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
31712 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
31713 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
31715 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
31716 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
31717 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
31718 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
31721 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
31722 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31723 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
31724 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
31725 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
31726 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
31727 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
31728 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
31731 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
31732 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
31733 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
31734 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
31737 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
31738 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
31739 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
31740 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
31741 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
31742 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
31745 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
31746 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31747 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
31748 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
31749 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
31750 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
31753 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
31754 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
31755 reported by Matt Edman.
31756 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
31758 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
31759 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
31760 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
31761 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
31763 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
31764 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31765 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
31766 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31767 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
31768 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
31769 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
31770 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
31771 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
31772 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
31773 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
31774 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
31775 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
31776 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31777 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
31778 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
31779 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
31780 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
31781 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31784 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
31785 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
31786 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
31787 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
31790 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
31791 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
31792 the letter of C99's alias rules.
31795 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
31796 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
31797 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
31798 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
31800 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
31801 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
31802 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
31805 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
31806 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
31809 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
31810 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
31811 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
31812 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
31813 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
31814 reported by "wood".
31815 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
31816 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
31817 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
31818 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
31819 identify a connection.
31820 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
31821 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
31822 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
31823 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
31824 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
31825 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
31826 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31827 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
31828 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
31829 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
31831 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
31832 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
31833 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
31834 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
31835 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
31836 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
31837 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
31840 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
31841 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
31843 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
31844 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
31845 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
31846 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
31847 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
31848 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
31849 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31850 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
31852 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
31853 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
31854 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
31855 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
31856 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
31857 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
31858 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
31859 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
31860 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
31861 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
31862 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
31863 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
31864 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
31865 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
31866 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31867 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
31868 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
31869 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31870 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
31871 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
31872 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
31873 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
31874 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
31875 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
31876 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
31877 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
31878 840. Patch from rovv.
31879 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
31880 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
31881 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
31883 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
31884 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
31885 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
31886 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
31887 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
31888 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
31889 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
31891 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31892 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
31893 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
31896 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
31897 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
31899 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
31900 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
31901 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
31902 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
31903 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
31904 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
31905 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
31906 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
31907 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
31909 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
31911 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
31912 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
31916 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
31917 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
31918 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
31919 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
31920 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
31921 have had some time to upgrade.)
31924 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
31925 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
31928 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
31929 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
31930 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
31931 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
31932 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
31935 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
31936 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
31938 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
31939 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
31940 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
31941 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
31942 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
31943 entirely. Patch from coderman.
31946 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
31947 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
31948 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
31949 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
31950 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
31951 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
31952 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
31956 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
31957 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
31958 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
31959 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
31960 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
31961 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
31962 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
31965 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
31966 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
31967 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
31968 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
31969 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
31971 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
31972 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
31973 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
31974 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
31975 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
31976 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
31977 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31978 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
31979 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
31980 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
31984 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
31985 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
31986 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
31988 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
31989 without support for deprecated functions.
31990 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
31992 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31993 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
31994 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
31995 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
31996 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
31997 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
31998 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
31999 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
32000 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
32001 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
32002 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
32003 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
32004 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
32005 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
32006 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
32007 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
32008 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
32009 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32010 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32011 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32012 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32013 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
32014 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
32016 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32017 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
32018 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
32019 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
32020 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
32021 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
32023 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
32024 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
32025 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
32026 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
32027 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
32029 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
32030 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
32031 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
32033 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
32034 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
32037 o Deprecated and removed features:
32038 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
32039 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
32040 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
32043 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32044 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
32045 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
32046 with log.h on Android.
32047 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
32048 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
32051 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
32052 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
32054 o New directory authorities:
32055 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
32059 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
32060 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
32061 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
32062 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
32063 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
32064 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32067 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
32068 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
32069 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
32070 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32071 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32072 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32073 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32074 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32075 reported by "wood".
32076 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32077 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
32078 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32079 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32082 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
32083 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
32085 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
32086 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
32087 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
32088 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
32089 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
32090 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
32091 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
32092 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
32093 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
32094 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32095 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
32096 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32097 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
32098 Implements proposal 148.
32099 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
32100 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
32101 system to do it for us.
32102 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
32103 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
32104 this fix will be slightly helpful.
32105 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
32106 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
32107 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
32108 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
32109 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
32110 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
32111 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
32112 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
32113 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
32116 o Minor features (controller):
32117 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
32118 been fetched and validated.
32119 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32120 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
32121 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32122 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
32123 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
32124 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
32127 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
32128 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32129 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
32130 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
32131 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
32133 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32134 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32135 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32136 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32137 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32138 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32139 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32140 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32141 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32143 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32144 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
32145 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
32146 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
32147 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32148 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
32149 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
32150 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32152 o Deprecated and removed features:
32153 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
32155 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
32156 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
32157 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
32159 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32160 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
32161 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
32163 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
32164 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
32165 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
32166 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
32167 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
32168 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
32171 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
32172 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
32173 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
32174 fixes a variety of other issues.
32177 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
32178 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
32179 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
32180 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
32183 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
32184 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
32185 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
32186 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
32189 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
32190 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32191 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
32195 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
32197 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
32198 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
32199 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
32200 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
32201 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
32202 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
32203 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
32205 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
32206 rest, and don't automatically fail.
32207 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
32208 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32209 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32210 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32212 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32213 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32214 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32215 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
32216 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
32217 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
32218 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
32219 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
32220 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32221 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
32223 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32227 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
32228 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
32229 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
32231 o Minor features (controller):
32232 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
32236 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
32237 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
32238 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
32239 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
32240 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
32241 variety of other issues.
32244 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
32245 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
32246 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
32247 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
32248 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
32249 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
32250 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
32251 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
32252 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
32253 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
32254 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
32255 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
32258 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
32259 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32261 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32262 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
32263 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
32264 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
32265 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
32266 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
32267 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32268 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
32269 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
32270 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
32271 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
32272 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
32273 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
32274 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
32275 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
32279 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
32280 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
32281 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
32282 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
32283 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
32284 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
32285 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
32286 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
32287 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
32288 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
32289 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
32290 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
32291 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
32292 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
32293 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
32294 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
32295 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
32296 list. It has been gone for many months.
32297 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
32298 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
32299 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
32302 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32303 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
32304 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
32307 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
32308 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
32309 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
32310 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
32311 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
32312 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
32313 variety of other issues.
32316 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
32317 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
32318 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
32319 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
32320 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
32321 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
32322 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
32323 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
32324 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
32325 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
32326 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
32327 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
32328 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
32329 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
32332 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
32333 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
32334 Suggested by Lucky Green.
32335 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32336 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32337 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32338 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32339 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32340 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32342 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
32343 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
32345 o Hidden service performance improvements:
32346 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
32347 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
32348 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
32349 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
32350 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
32351 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
32352 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
32353 faster after restart.
32356 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
32357 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
32358 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
32359 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32360 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32361 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32362 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32363 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32364 840. Patch from rovv.
32365 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32366 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32367 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32368 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32369 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32370 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32371 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32372 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32373 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32375 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
32376 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
32377 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
32378 have already been marked for close.
32379 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
32380 introduction points.
32381 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
32382 memory performance during directory parsing.
32383 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
32384 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
32385 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
32386 because of a pending download.
32389 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
32390 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
32391 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
32392 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32395 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
32396 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
32397 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
32398 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
32399 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
32400 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
32401 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
32402 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
32403 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
32404 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
32405 lookups more reliable.
32406 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
32407 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
32408 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
32409 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
32410 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
32411 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
32412 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32415 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
32416 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
32417 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32418 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
32419 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
32420 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
32421 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
32422 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
32423 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
32424 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
32425 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
32427 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
32428 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
32429 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
32430 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
32431 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
32432 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32433 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
32434 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
32435 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32438 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
32439 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
32440 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
32441 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
32442 locked down these days.
32443 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
32444 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
32445 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
32446 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
32447 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
32449 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
32450 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
32451 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
32452 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
32453 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
32454 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
32455 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
32456 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
32457 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
32458 people find host:port too confusing.
32459 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
32460 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32461 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
32464 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32466 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
32467 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
32468 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
32469 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
32470 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
32472 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
32473 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
32474 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
32475 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
32476 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
32477 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
32478 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
32479 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
32480 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
32481 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
32482 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
32483 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
32485 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
32486 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
32487 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
32488 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
32489 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
32490 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
32491 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32492 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
32493 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
32495 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
32496 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
32497 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
32498 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
32499 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
32500 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32501 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
32502 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
32503 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
32504 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
32505 bug 820, reported by seeess.
32506 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
32507 list. It has been gone for many months.
32509 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32510 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
32511 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
32512 actual mistakes we're making here.
32513 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
32514 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
32515 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
32516 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
32519 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
32520 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
32521 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
32522 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32525 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
32526 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
32527 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
32528 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
32529 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
32530 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
32532 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
32533 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
32534 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
32535 pointed out by rovv.
32538 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
32539 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32540 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
32541 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32542 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
32543 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
32544 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
32545 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
32546 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
32547 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32548 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
32549 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
32550 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
32551 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32552 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
32553 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
32554 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
32555 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
32556 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
32557 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
32558 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
32561 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
32562 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
32563 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
32564 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
32565 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
32566 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
32567 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32570 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
32572 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
32573 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
32574 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
32575 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
32576 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
32577 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
32578 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
32580 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
32581 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
32582 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
32583 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
32584 known descriptor before building circuits.
32586 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
32587 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
32588 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
32589 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
32590 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
32591 identify a connection.
32592 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
32593 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
32594 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
32596 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
32597 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
32598 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
32599 pointed out by rovv.
32602 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
32603 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32604 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
32605 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
32606 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
32607 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32608 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
32609 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32610 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
32611 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
32612 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
32613 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
32614 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
32615 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
32616 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32619 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
32620 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
32621 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
32622 answer sections match.
32623 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
32624 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
32627 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
32628 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32631 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
32632 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
32633 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
32635 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
32636 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
32637 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32640 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
32641 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
32642 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
32643 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
32646 o Removed features:
32647 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
32648 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
32651 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
32652 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
32653 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
32654 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
32655 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
32656 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
32658 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
32659 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
32660 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
32663 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
32664 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
32665 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
32666 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
32667 be sent using an "early" cell.
32670 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
32671 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
32672 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
32673 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
32674 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
32675 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
32676 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
32679 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
32680 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
32681 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
32682 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
32683 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
32684 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
32685 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
32686 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
32687 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
32688 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
32689 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
32690 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
32691 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
32692 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
32693 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
32694 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
32697 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
32698 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
32699 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
32700 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
32701 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
32702 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
32703 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
32704 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
32705 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
32707 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
32708 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
32709 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
32710 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
32711 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
32714 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32715 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
32716 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
32717 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
32719 o Removed features:
32720 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
32721 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
32725 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
32727 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
32728 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
32729 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
32732 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
32733 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
32734 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
32737 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
32738 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
32739 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
32740 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
32741 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32742 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
32743 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
32744 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
32745 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32746 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
32747 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
32748 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
32749 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
32750 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
32751 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
32752 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
32753 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
32754 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
32755 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
32756 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
32757 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
32758 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
32759 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
32762 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
32763 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
32765 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
32766 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
32767 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
32768 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
32769 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
32770 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
32771 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
32773 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
32774 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
32775 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
32776 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
32777 found by Geoff Goodell.
32780 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
32781 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
32782 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
32783 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
32784 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
32785 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
32788 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
32789 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
32790 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
32793 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
32794 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
32795 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
32796 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
32797 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32798 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
32799 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
32800 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
32801 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32802 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
32803 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
32804 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
32805 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
32806 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
32809 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
32810 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
32811 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
32813 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
32814 fingerprints with or without space.
32815 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
32816 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
32817 partway through and wants to catch up.
32818 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
32819 state to start out in.
32822 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
32823 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
32824 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32825 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
32826 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
32829 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
32830 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
32831 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
32832 some of the connection attempts fail.
32833 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
32834 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
32835 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
32836 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
32837 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
32838 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
32840 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
32841 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
32842 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
32845 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
32846 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
32847 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
32848 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
32849 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
32850 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
32851 and adds a variety of smaller features.
32854 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
32855 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
32856 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
32857 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
32859 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
32860 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
32861 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
32862 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
32864 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
32865 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
32866 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
32867 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
32868 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
32869 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
32870 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
32873 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
32874 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
32875 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
32876 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
32877 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
32879 o Memory fixes and improvements:
32880 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
32881 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
32882 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
32883 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
32884 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
32885 on a typical directory cache.
32886 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
32887 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
32888 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
32889 and may reduce fragmentation.
32890 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
32891 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
32892 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
32894 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
32895 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
32896 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
32898 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
32899 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
32903 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
32904 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
32905 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
32906 done that for a long time.
32907 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
32908 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
32909 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
32910 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
32913 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
32914 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
32915 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
32916 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
32917 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
32918 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
32920 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
32921 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
32922 output to messages of warning and error severity.
32923 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
32924 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
32925 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
32926 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
32927 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
32928 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
32929 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
32930 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
32931 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
32932 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
32933 directory requests we should expect to see.
32934 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
32936 - Lots of new unit tests.
32937 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
32938 two parallel lists in lockstep.
32941 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
32942 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
32943 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
32946 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
32947 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
32948 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
32949 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
32950 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
32951 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
32952 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
32955 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
32956 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
32957 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
32961 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
32962 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
32963 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
32966 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
32967 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
32968 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
32970 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
32971 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
32973 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
32974 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
32975 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
32976 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
32977 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32978 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
32979 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
32981 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
32982 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
32983 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
32984 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
32985 - Fix compile on Windows.
32988 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
32989 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
32990 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
32991 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
32992 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
32993 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
32994 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
32997 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
32998 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
33001 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
33002 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
33003 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
33004 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
33006 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
33007 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
33008 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
33011 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
33012 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
33013 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
33014 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
33018 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
33019 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
33020 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
33021 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
33023 o Major security fixes:
33024 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
33025 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
33026 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
33027 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
33028 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
33031 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
33032 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33035 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
33036 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
33039 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
33040 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
33043 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
33044 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
33045 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
33048 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
33049 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33052 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
33053 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
33054 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
33055 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
33056 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
33058 o New directory authorities:
33059 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
33060 it has been down for months.
33061 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
33065 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
33066 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
33068 o Minor features (security):
33069 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
33070 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
33071 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
33074 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
33075 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
33076 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
33077 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
33078 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
33079 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
33080 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
33081 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
33082 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33084 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
33085 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
33086 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33087 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
33088 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
33089 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
33090 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33091 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
33092 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
33094 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33095 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
33096 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
33097 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
33098 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
33099 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
33100 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
33101 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
33102 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
33103 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
33104 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33105 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
33106 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
33107 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
33108 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
33109 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
33110 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
33111 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
33112 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
33115 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
33116 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33117 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
33118 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
33121 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
33122 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
33123 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
33124 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
33127 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
33128 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33129 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
33130 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
33131 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
33134 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
33135 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
33136 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
33137 certain censored countries by default again.
33140 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
33141 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33142 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
33143 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
33144 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33145 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
33146 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
33147 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
33149 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33150 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
33151 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
33152 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
33153 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
33154 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
33155 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
33156 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
33157 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
33158 a directory. Fix from lodger.
33160 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33161 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
33162 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
33163 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
33164 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
33165 RelayBandwidth* values.
33166 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
33167 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
33168 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
33169 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
33170 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
33171 get_interface_address6().
33172 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
33173 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
33174 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
33176 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
33177 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
33178 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
33179 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33180 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
33181 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
33182 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33183 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
33184 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
33185 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33188 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
33189 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
33190 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
33193 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
33194 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33195 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
33196 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
33197 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
33200 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
33201 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
33202 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
33203 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
33204 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
33205 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
33206 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
33207 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
33208 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
33211 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
33212 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
33213 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
33214 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33217 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
33218 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33219 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
33220 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
33221 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
33222 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
33223 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
33226 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
33227 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
33228 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
33229 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
33230 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
33231 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
33232 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
33234 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
33235 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
33236 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
33237 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
33238 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
33241 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
33242 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
33243 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
33244 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
33245 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
33246 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
33247 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33248 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
33249 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
33250 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
33251 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
33252 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
33253 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
33254 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
33255 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
33256 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33257 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
33258 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33259 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33260 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
33261 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
33262 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
33263 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
33264 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
33265 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
33266 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
33268 o Minor features (performance):
33269 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
33271 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
33272 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
33273 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
33274 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
33275 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
33276 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
33277 non-system include paths.
33278 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
33279 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
33282 o Minor features (other):
33283 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
33285 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
33286 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
33287 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
33290 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
33291 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
33292 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
33293 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
33295 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
33296 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
33297 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
33298 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
33299 Should fix bug 537.
33300 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
33301 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
33302 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33303 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
33304 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33306 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33307 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
33308 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
33309 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
33310 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
33311 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
33312 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
33313 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
33314 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
33315 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
33316 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
33317 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
33318 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
33319 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
33320 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
33321 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33322 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
33323 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
33324 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
33325 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
33326 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
33327 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
33328 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
33329 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
33330 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
33333 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33334 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
33335 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
33339 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
33340 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
33341 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
33342 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
33343 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
33346 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
33347 Tor's x509 certificates.
33350 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
33351 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
33352 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33353 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
33354 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
33355 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33357 o Minor features (security):
33358 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
33359 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
33361 o Minor features (directory authority):
33362 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
33363 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
33364 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
33365 bandwidthburst values.
33367 o Minor features (controller):
33368 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
33369 processes from running us out of memory.
33371 o Minor features (misc):
33372 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
33373 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
33374 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
33375 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
33377 o Deprecated features (controller):
33378 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
33379 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
33380 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
33383 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
33384 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
33386 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
33387 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
33388 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33389 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
33390 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
33391 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33392 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
33393 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
33395 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
33396 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33397 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
33398 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33399 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
33400 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
33401 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
33402 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
33404 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
33405 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
33406 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
33407 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
33408 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33409 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
33410 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33411 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
33412 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33413 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
33414 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
33415 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33417 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33418 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
33420 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
33421 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
33422 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
33423 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
33424 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
33425 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
33428 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
33429 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
33430 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
33431 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
33432 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
33434 o New directory authorities:
33435 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
33439 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
33440 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
33441 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
33442 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
33443 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
33444 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
33445 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
33446 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
33450 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
33451 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
33452 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
33453 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
33454 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
33455 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
33456 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
33457 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
33458 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
33459 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
33462 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
33463 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
33464 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
33465 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
33469 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
33470 the request isn't encrypted.
33471 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
33472 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
33473 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
33474 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
33475 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
33478 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
33479 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
33482 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
33485 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
33486 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
33487 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
33489 o New directory authorities:
33490 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
33493 o Major performance improvements:
33494 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
33495 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
33496 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
33497 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
33498 memory fragmentation.
33501 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
33502 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
33503 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
33504 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
33505 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
33506 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
33507 bodies when they receive them.
33508 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
33509 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
33510 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
33512 o Minor performance improvements:
33513 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
33514 of them were actually distinct.
33515 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
33516 interested in a given message.
33519 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
33520 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
33521 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
33522 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
33523 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
33524 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
33525 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
33526 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
33527 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
33528 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
33529 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
33531 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
33532 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
33533 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
33534 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
33535 this country" and "1 person from this country".
33536 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
33537 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
33538 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
33539 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
33540 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
33542 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
33543 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
33544 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
33546 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
33547 but client versions are not.
33548 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
33549 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
33551 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
33552 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
33553 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
33554 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
33555 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
33557 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
33558 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
33559 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
33562 o Minor features (controller):
33563 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
33564 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
33565 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
33566 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
33568 o Minor features (directory authorities):
33569 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
33570 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
33571 running a test network on a single host.
33572 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
33573 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
33575 o Minor features (bridges):
33576 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
33577 unencrypted connections.
33579 o Minor features (other):
33580 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
33581 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
33582 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
33583 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
33586 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
33587 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
33588 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
33589 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33592 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
33593 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
33594 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
33595 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
33596 on network address.
33599 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
33600 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
33601 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
33602 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
33603 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
33604 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
33605 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
33606 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
33607 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
33608 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
33609 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
33610 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
33613 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
33614 rebuild our server descriptor.
33615 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
33616 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
33617 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
33618 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
33619 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
33620 nonstandard integer types.
33621 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
33622 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
33623 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
33624 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
33625 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
33627 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
33628 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
33629 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
33630 when they receive them.
33631 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
33632 This includes some 64-bit systems.
33633 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
33634 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
33635 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
33636 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
33637 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
33638 router_get_by_hexdigest().
33639 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
33640 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
33644 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
33645 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
33646 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
33649 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
33650 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
33651 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
33652 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
33653 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
33654 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
33655 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
33656 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33659 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
33660 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
33661 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
33662 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
33664 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
33665 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
33668 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
33669 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
33672 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
33674 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
33675 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
33677 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
33678 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
33679 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
33680 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33681 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
33682 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
33683 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
33684 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
33685 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
33686 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
33690 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
33691 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
33692 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
33695 - Make the unit tests build again.
33696 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
33697 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
33698 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
33699 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
33700 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
33701 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33702 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
33703 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
33704 the next one as a duplicate.
33707 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
33708 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
33709 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
33710 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
33713 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
33714 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
33715 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
33718 o New directory authorities:
33719 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
33723 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
33724 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
33725 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
33726 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
33727 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
33728 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
33729 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
33731 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
33732 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
33734 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
33735 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
33736 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
33737 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
33738 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
33739 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
33741 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
33742 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
33743 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
33744 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
33745 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
33746 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33749 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
33750 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
33751 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
33752 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
33753 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
33754 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
33755 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
33756 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
33757 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
33758 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
33759 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
33760 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
33761 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
33762 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
33763 where Tor is blocked.
33764 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
33765 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
33766 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
33767 to a file periodically.
33768 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
33769 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
33770 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
33774 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
33775 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
33776 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
33777 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
33778 in the relevant networkstatus document.
33779 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
33780 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
33781 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
33782 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
33783 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
33784 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
33785 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
33786 by Karsten Loesing.
33787 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
33788 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
33789 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
33790 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
33791 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
33792 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33793 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
33794 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
33795 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
33796 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33797 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
33798 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
33799 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
33800 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33801 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
33802 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
33803 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
33804 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
33805 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
33806 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33807 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33808 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
33809 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33810 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
33811 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
33812 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
33813 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
33814 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33817 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
33818 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
33819 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
33820 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
33821 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
33822 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
33823 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
33824 even if your DirPort isn't on.
33825 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
33826 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
33827 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
33829 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
33830 multiple controller passwords.
33831 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
33832 router based on the router's purpose.
33833 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
33834 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
33835 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
33836 the approved-routers file.
33839 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
33840 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
33841 well as a few minor bugs.
33844 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
33845 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
33846 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
33848 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33849 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
33850 rebuild our server descriptor.
33852 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33853 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
33854 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
33855 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
33856 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
33857 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
33858 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
33859 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
33860 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
33861 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
33863 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
33864 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
33865 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
33866 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
33867 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
33868 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
33869 then be flexible about families.
33872 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
33873 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
33874 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
33878 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
33879 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
33880 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
33881 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
33882 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
33885 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
33886 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
33887 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
33888 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
33889 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33892 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
33893 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
33895 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
33896 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
33897 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
33898 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
33899 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
33900 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
33901 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
33903 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
33904 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
33905 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
33906 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
33909 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
33910 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
33913 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
33914 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
33915 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33918 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
33919 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
33920 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
33921 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
33922 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
33923 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
33924 addresses many more minor issues.
33926 o New directory authorities:
33927 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
33930 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
33931 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
33932 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
33933 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
33935 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
33936 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
33937 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
33938 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
33939 and are reaching it.
33940 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
33941 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
33942 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
33943 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
33944 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
33945 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
33948 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
33949 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
33951 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
33952 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
33953 no longer work for clients.
33954 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
33955 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
33957 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
33958 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
33959 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
33960 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
33961 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
33962 enough directory information to build a circuit.
33963 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
33964 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
33965 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
33966 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
33967 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
33968 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
33970 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
33971 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
33972 requests for all of them.
33973 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
33975 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
33976 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
33977 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
33979 o New requirements:
33980 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
33981 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
33985 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
33986 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
33987 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
33988 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
33989 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
33990 networkstatuses that we already have.
33991 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
33992 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
33993 we start knowing some directory caches.
33994 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
33995 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
33996 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
33997 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
33998 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
33999 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
34000 Good in combination with --hash-password.
34001 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
34002 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
34004 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
34005 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
34006 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
34008 o Minor features (bridges):
34009 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
34010 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
34011 back to trying the bridge directly.
34012 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
34013 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
34015 o Minor features (controller):
34016 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
34017 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
34018 report the value as a "minimum skew."
34021 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
34022 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
34026 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
34027 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
34028 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
34029 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
34030 reported by tup and ioerror.
34031 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
34032 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
34034 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
34035 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34037 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34038 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
34039 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
34041 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
34042 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34043 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
34044 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34045 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
34046 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34047 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
34049 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
34050 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
34051 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34053 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
34054 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
34055 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
34056 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
34057 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
34060 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
34061 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
34062 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
34063 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
34064 lists for a few hours each day.
34066 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34067 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34068 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34069 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
34070 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
34071 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34072 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34073 rend_process_relay_cell().
34075 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34076 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34077 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34078 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34079 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34080 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34081 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
34082 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
34084 o Major bugfixes (other):
34085 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
34086 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
34087 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
34088 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34089 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34090 circuit cannibalization).
34091 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34092 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34093 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34094 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34095 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34096 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
34099 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
34100 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
34102 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
34103 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
34104 absent. Resolves bug 467.
34105 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
34106 a way to trigger this remotely.)
34107 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34108 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34109 were reporting the dir port.)
34110 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34111 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
34112 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
34113 the future. Fixes bug 434.
34114 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
34116 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
34117 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
34118 the onion key from getting rotated.
34119 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34120 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34121 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34122 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
34123 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34124 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
34125 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
34126 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34127 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34130 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
34131 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
34132 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
34133 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
34134 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
34135 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
34137 o Major features (directory system):
34138 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
34139 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
34140 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
34141 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
34142 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
34143 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
34144 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
34145 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
34146 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
34147 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
34148 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
34149 Partially implements proposal 122.
34150 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
34151 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
34154 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
34155 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
34156 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
34157 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
34159 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34160 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34161 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34162 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34163 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34164 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34165 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
34166 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
34167 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34169 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
34170 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
34172 - Allow certificates to include an address.
34173 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
34174 and download operations.
34175 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
34176 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
34177 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
34178 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
34179 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
34180 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
34182 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
34183 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
34186 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
34187 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
34188 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
34189 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
34191 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
34192 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
34193 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
34195 o Minor features (performance):
34196 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
34197 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
34198 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
34199 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
34200 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
34201 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
34202 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
34205 o Minor features (compilation):
34206 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
34207 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
34209 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
34210 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
34211 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
34212 stick around indefinitely.
34213 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
34215 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
34216 v3 directory authority.
34217 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
34218 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
34220 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
34221 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
34222 "moria on moria:9031."
34223 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
34224 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
34225 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
34226 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
34227 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
34228 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
34229 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
34230 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
34232 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
34233 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
34234 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
34235 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
34236 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
34237 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
34238 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
34239 downloads than for other types.
34241 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
34242 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
34244 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
34245 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
34246 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34248 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34249 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
34250 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34251 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
34252 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
34253 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
34254 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
34255 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
34257 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34258 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
34259 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
34260 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
34261 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34262 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
34263 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
34264 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34265 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
34266 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
34267 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
34269 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
34270 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
34273 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34274 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
34275 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
34276 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
34277 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
34278 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
34279 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
34280 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
34281 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
34282 so that they all take the same named flags.
34285 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
34286 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
34287 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
34290 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
34291 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
34292 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
34293 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
34294 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
34295 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
34297 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
34298 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
34299 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
34300 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
34301 annotations along with descriptors.
34302 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
34303 source, and its purpose.
34304 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
34306 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
34307 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
34308 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
34309 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
34312 o Major features (directory authorities):
34313 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
34315 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
34316 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
34317 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
34318 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
34319 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
34320 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
34322 o Major features (v3 directory system):
34323 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
34324 and download the descriptors listed in them.
34325 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
34326 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
34327 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
34329 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34330 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34331 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34332 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
34335 o Major bugfixes (performance):
34336 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
34337 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
34338 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
34339 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
34341 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
34342 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
34343 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
34344 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
34345 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
34346 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34348 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
34349 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
34351 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
34352 certificate is requested.
34353 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
34354 certificate requests.
34356 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
34357 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
34358 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
34359 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
34362 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34363 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34364 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34365 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34367 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
34368 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
34370 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
34371 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
34372 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34373 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
34374 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
34375 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
34376 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
34377 downloads more sensible.
34378 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
34379 another when serving certificates.
34381 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34382 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
34383 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
34384 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
34386 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
34387 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34388 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
34390 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34391 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34393 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
34394 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34395 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34396 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
34397 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34399 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
34400 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
34401 WARN-severity events.
34402 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34403 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
34404 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34406 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
34407 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
34408 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
34410 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34411 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34412 circuit cannibalization).
34414 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34415 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
34416 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
34417 new module, networkstatus.c.
34418 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
34419 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
34420 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
34421 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
34422 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
34423 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
34424 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
34425 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
34426 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
34428 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
34430 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
34431 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34434 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
34435 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
34436 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
34437 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
34439 o New directory authorities:
34440 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
34441 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
34443 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34444 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34445 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34447 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
34448 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
34449 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
34450 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
34451 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34452 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
34453 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
34454 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
34455 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
34456 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
34457 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34459 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34460 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34461 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34462 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34463 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34464 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34465 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
34466 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
34467 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
34469 o Minor features (security):
34470 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
34471 address maps to an internal address space.
34472 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
34473 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
34475 o Minor features (guard nodes):
34476 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
34477 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
34478 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
34479 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
34481 o Minor features (speed):
34482 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
34483 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
34484 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
34485 on big-endian hosts.)
34487 o Minor features (controller):
34488 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
34489 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
34490 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
34491 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
34494 o Removed features:
34495 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
34496 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
34497 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
34498 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
34499 implementation of proposal 104.
34500 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
34501 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
34502 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
34503 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
34504 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
34505 patch from Karsten Loesing.
34506 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
34507 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
34510 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
34511 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
34512 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34513 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
34514 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34515 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
34516 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34517 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
34518 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
34519 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34520 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
34521 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
34522 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
34523 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34524 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
34525 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
34526 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
34527 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34528 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
34529 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
34531 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34532 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
34533 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
34535 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
34536 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
34537 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
34538 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
34541 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
34542 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
34543 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
34544 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
34545 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
34548 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
34549 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
34552 o Major bugfixes (security):
34553 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
34554 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
34555 become more of a headache than it's worth.
34557 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
34558 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
34559 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
34561 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
34562 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
34563 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
34564 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
34565 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
34566 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
34568 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
34569 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
34570 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
34571 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
34572 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
34574 o Minor features (controller):
34575 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
34576 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
34577 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
34578 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
34580 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34581 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
34582 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
34583 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
34584 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
34585 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
34586 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
34587 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
34589 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34590 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
34591 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
34592 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
34593 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
34594 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
34595 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
34596 if we ran off the end of the list.
34597 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
34598 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
34599 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
34600 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
34601 every time we change any piece of our config.
34602 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
34603 encourage people using them to stop.
34604 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
34606 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
34607 servers to choose a circuit.
34608 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
34609 unparseable piece of it.
34612 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
34613 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
34614 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
34615 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
34618 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
34619 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
34620 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
34621 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
34622 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
34624 o New directory authorities:
34625 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
34628 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
34629 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
34630 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
34631 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
34633 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
34634 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
34635 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
34637 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
34638 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
34639 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
34640 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
34641 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
34642 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
34644 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
34645 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
34646 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34649 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
34650 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
34651 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
34652 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
34656 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
34657 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
34658 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
34659 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
34661 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
34662 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
34664 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
34665 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
34666 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
34667 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
34668 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
34669 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
34670 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34671 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
34672 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34673 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
34676 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
34677 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
34678 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
34679 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
34680 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
34681 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
34683 o Removed features:
34684 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
34685 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
34686 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
34687 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
34690 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
34691 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
34692 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
34693 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
34694 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
34697 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
34698 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
34699 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
34700 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
34701 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
34702 reported by lodger.
34704 o Minor features (directory servers):
34705 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
34706 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
34708 o Minor features (directory voting):
34709 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
34712 o Minor features (security):
34713 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
34714 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
34715 encourage people using them to stop.
34717 o Minor features (controller):
34718 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
34719 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
34720 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
34721 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
34722 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
34723 cookie authentication file, and config option
34724 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
34726 o Minor features (unit testing):
34727 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
34728 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
34729 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
34730 logging for the unit tests.
34732 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34733 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
34734 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
34735 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
34736 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
34737 every time we change any piece of our config.
34738 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
34739 the future. Fixes bug 434.
34740 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
34742 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
34743 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
34744 the onion key from getting rotated.
34745 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
34746 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
34747 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
34750 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34751 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
34752 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
34754 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
34755 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
34756 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
34757 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
34760 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
34761 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
34762 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
34763 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
34764 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
34765 TorK, etc. Or worse.
34767 o Major security fixes:
34768 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
34769 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
34772 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
34773 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
34774 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
34775 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
34777 o Major security fixes:
34778 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
34779 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
34781 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
34782 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
34785 o Minor features (performance):
34786 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
34787 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
34788 performance-intensive.
34789 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
34790 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
34791 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
34792 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
34793 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
34794 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
34798 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
34799 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
34800 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
34801 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
34805 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
34806 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
34807 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
34808 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
34809 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
34811 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
34812 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
34813 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
34814 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
34816 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
34817 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
34818 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
34819 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
34820 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
34822 o Major features (experimental):
34823 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
34824 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
34825 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
34826 handling before it's ready for use.
34829 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
34830 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
34831 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
34832 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
34833 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
34834 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
34836 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
34837 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
34838 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
34839 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
34840 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
34842 o Major bugfixes (directory):
34843 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
34844 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
34846 o Minor features (controller):
34847 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
34848 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
34849 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
34850 from Robert Hogan.)
34851 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
34852 from Robert Hogan.)
34853 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
34854 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
34856 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
34857 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
34858 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
34859 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
34860 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
34861 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
34862 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
34865 o Minor features (misc):
34866 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
34868 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
34869 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
34870 the authority identity key.
34871 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
34873 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
34874 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
34875 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
34878 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
34879 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
34880 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
34881 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
34882 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
34883 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
34884 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
34885 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
34887 o Performance improvements:
34888 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
34890 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
34891 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
34894 o Deprecated and removed features:
34895 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
34896 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
34897 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
34898 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
34900 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
34901 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
34902 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
34903 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
34904 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
34905 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
34906 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
34907 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
34908 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
34911 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
34912 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
34913 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
34914 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
34915 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
34917 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
34918 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
34921 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34922 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
34923 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
34924 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
34925 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
34926 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
34927 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
34928 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
34929 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
34932 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
34933 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
34934 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
34935 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
34937 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
34938 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
34940 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34941 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
34942 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
34943 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
34944 routerlist while inserting a new router.
34945 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
34946 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
34948 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
34949 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
34950 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
34952 o Major bugfixes (security):
34953 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
34955 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
34956 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
34957 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
34958 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
34959 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
34960 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
34961 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
34962 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
34963 guard list unless we need to.
34965 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
34966 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
34967 don't get overused as guards.
34969 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
34970 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
34971 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
34972 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
34973 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
34975 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
34976 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
34977 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
34980 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34981 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
34982 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
34983 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
34984 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
34985 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
34986 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
34987 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
34990 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
34991 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
34992 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
34993 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
34995 o Minor features (directory):
34996 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
34997 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
34998 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
34999 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
35001 o Minor build issues:
35002 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
35003 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
35004 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
35005 in the tarball, not as "x".
35008 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
35009 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
35010 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
35011 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
35012 forward on a lot of fronts.
35014 o Major features, server usability:
35015 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
35016 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
35017 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
35018 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
35020 o Major features, client usability:
35021 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
35022 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
35023 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
35024 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
35025 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
35026 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
35027 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
35028 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
35030 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
35031 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
35032 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
35033 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
35034 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
35035 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
35037 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
35038 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
35039 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
35041 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
35042 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
35043 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
35044 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
35045 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
35047 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
35048 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
35049 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
35050 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
35052 o Major features, other:
35053 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
35054 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
35055 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
35056 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
35057 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
35060 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
35061 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
35062 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
35065 o Minor fixes (resource management):
35066 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
35067 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
35068 our allocated connection limit.
35069 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
35070 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
35071 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
35072 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
35073 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
35075 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
35076 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
35077 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
35079 o Minor features (build):
35080 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
35081 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
35082 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
35083 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
35085 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
35086 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
35087 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
35088 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
35089 Use this version consistently in log messages.
35091 o Minor features (logging):
35092 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
35093 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
35094 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
35095 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
35096 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
35099 o Minor features (directory system):
35100 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
35101 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
35102 not to serve V2 directory information.
35103 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
35104 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
35105 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
35107 o Minor features (controller):
35108 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
35109 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
35111 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
35112 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
35113 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
35114 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
35115 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
35116 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
35118 o Minor features (hidden services):
35119 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
35120 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
35121 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
35122 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
35124 o Minor features (other):
35126 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
35127 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
35128 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
35129 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
35130 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
35131 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
35132 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
35133 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
35134 longer a completely silly thing to do.
35135 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
35136 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
35137 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
35138 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
35140 o Removed features:
35141 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
35142 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
35143 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
35144 back an error and close the connection.
35145 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
35146 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
35149 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35150 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
35151 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
35152 makes the log messages nicer.
35153 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
35154 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
35155 partial results on small file reads.
35157 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35158 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
35159 more often than they are allowed to appear.
35160 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
35161 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
35163 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
35164 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
35165 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
35166 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
35168 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35169 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
35170 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
35171 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
35172 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
35173 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
35174 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
35175 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35176 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
35177 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
35178 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
35180 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
35181 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
35182 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
35184 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
35185 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
35186 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
35187 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
35189 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35190 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
35191 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
35193 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
35194 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
35197 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35198 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
35199 implicit in other procedure arguments.
35200 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
35201 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
35202 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
35203 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
35204 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
35205 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
35206 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
35207 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
35208 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
35211 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
35212 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
35213 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
35214 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
35216 o Directory authority changes:
35217 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
35218 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
35219 or use hidden services.
35221 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35222 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
35223 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
35224 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
35225 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
35226 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
35227 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
35228 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
35229 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
35232 o Major bugfixes (security):
35233 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
35234 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
35235 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
35237 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
35238 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
35239 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
35240 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
35241 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
35242 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
35243 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
35244 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
35245 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
35246 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
35249 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
35250 purpose=controller.
35251 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
35252 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
35254 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
35255 having a hard time downloading.
35256 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
35257 partial results on small file reads.
35258 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
35259 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
35260 the gaps in the store get very large.
35263 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
35264 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
35266 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
35267 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
35270 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
35271 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
35272 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
35273 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
35274 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
35275 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
35277 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
35278 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
35279 free speech on the Internet.
35282 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
35283 get one we don't recognize.
35284 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
35285 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
35288 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
35290 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
35291 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
35292 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
35293 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
35296 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
35297 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
35300 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
35301 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
35302 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
35303 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
35304 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
35305 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
35306 ask for GUARDS too.
35309 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
35310 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
35311 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
35312 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
35313 on Win98 and friends again.
35315 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35316 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
35317 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
35320 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
35321 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
35322 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
35323 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
35324 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
35325 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
35326 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
35327 and maybe also bug 397.)
35329 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35330 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
35331 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
35333 o Minor bugfixes (server):
35334 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
35337 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
35338 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
35339 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
35340 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
35341 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
35343 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
35344 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
35345 load on authorities.
35347 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35348 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
35349 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
35350 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
35352 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
35354 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
35355 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
35356 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
35357 the last of bug 326.)
35358 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
35359 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
35363 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
35364 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35365 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
35366 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
35367 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
35368 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
35369 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
35371 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
35372 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
35374 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35375 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
35376 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
35378 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
35379 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
35380 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
35382 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35383 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
35384 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
35385 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
35387 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
35388 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
35390 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
35391 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
35392 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
35395 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35396 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
35397 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
35398 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
35399 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
35400 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
35401 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
35402 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
35403 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
35404 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
35405 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
35406 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
35407 other than file-not-found.
35408 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
35409 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
35410 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
35411 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
35412 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
35413 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
35414 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
35415 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
35416 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
35417 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
35418 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
35419 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
35420 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
35421 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
35422 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
35424 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
35426 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
35427 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
35429 o Minor features (controller):
35430 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
35431 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
35432 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
35434 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
35435 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35436 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
35437 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
35438 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
35439 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
35440 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
35441 connected or resolved cell.
35443 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35444 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
35445 some profiles, but not others.)
35446 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
35447 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
35448 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
35451 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
35453 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
35454 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
35455 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
35456 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
35457 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
35458 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
35459 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
35460 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
35461 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
35462 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
35463 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
35464 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
35465 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
35466 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
35467 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
35469 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
35472 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
35473 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
35474 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
35475 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
35476 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
35477 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
35478 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
35480 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
35481 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
35482 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
35483 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
35484 buckets go absurdly negative.
35485 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
35486 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
35489 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
35490 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
35491 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
35492 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
35493 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
35494 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
35495 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
35496 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
35499 o Major bugfixes (other):
35500 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
35501 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
35502 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
35503 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
35505 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
35507 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
35508 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
35510 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
35511 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
35512 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
35513 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
35514 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
35515 to wait for 0.2.0.)
35517 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
35518 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
35519 possible memory-stomping bugs.
35520 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
35521 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
35523 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
35524 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
35525 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
35526 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
35527 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
35528 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
35530 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35531 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
35532 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
35533 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
35535 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
35536 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
35537 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
35538 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
35539 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
35540 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
35541 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
35542 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
35543 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
35544 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
35545 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
35546 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
35547 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
35549 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
35550 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
35551 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
35552 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
35553 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
35554 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
35555 to the resulting address.
35558 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
35559 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
35560 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
35561 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
35564 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
35565 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
35567 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
35568 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
35569 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
35570 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
35571 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
35572 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
35573 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
35574 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
35575 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
35576 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
35577 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
35578 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
35579 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
35580 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
35581 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
35582 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
35583 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
35586 o Minor features (controller):
35587 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
35588 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
35589 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
35590 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
35591 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
35592 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
35593 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
35597 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
35599 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
35600 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
35601 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
35602 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
35603 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
35604 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
35607 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
35608 weren't planning to resolve.
35609 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
35610 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
35611 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
35612 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
35613 the controller from learning about current events.
35615 o Minor features (more controller status events):
35616 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
35617 learn when our address changes.
35618 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
35619 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
35620 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
35621 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
35623 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
35624 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
35625 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
35626 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
35627 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
35628 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
35629 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
35630 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
35631 are accepted by a directory.
35632 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
35633 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
35634 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
35635 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
35636 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
35638 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
35639 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
35640 about changes to DNS server status.
35642 o Minor features (directory):
35643 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
35644 too much load to the exit nodes.
35647 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
35649 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
35650 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
35651 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
35652 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
35653 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
35655 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
35656 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
35657 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
35659 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
35660 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
35661 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
35662 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
35663 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
35664 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
35665 config options if you like.
35667 o Minor features (config and docs):
35668 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
35669 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
35670 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
35671 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
35672 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
35674 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
35675 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
35676 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
35677 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
35678 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
35680 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
35681 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
35682 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
35683 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
35684 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
35685 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
35686 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
35687 documentation: "make check-docs".
35688 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
35689 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
35691 o Minor features (DNS):
35692 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
35693 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
35694 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
35695 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
35696 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
35697 our tests for DNS hijacking.
35699 o Minor features (directory):
35700 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
35701 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
35702 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
35703 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
35704 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
35705 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
35706 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
35707 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
35708 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
35709 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
35710 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
35711 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
35712 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
35713 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
35714 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
35715 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
35716 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
35717 for the thing we're trying to download.
35718 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
35719 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
35720 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
35722 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
35723 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
35724 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
35727 o Minor features (controller):
35728 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
35729 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
35731 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
35732 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
35733 entry guard status as it changes.
35735 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
35736 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
35737 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
35738 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
35739 to set log options.
35740 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
35741 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
35742 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
35743 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
35746 o Major bugfixes (security):
35747 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
35748 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
35749 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
35750 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
35752 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
35753 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
35754 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
35755 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
35756 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
35758 o Major bugfixes (other):
35759 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
35760 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
35761 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
35762 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
35764 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
35765 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
35766 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
35767 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
35768 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
35769 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
35773 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
35774 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
35775 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
35776 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
35777 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
35779 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
35780 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
35782 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
35783 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
35784 family lists conveniently.
35785 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
35786 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
35787 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
35789 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
35790 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
35792 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
35793 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
35794 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
35795 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
35796 if their identity keys are as expected.
35797 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
35798 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
35799 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
35801 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35802 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
35803 reported by Mike Perry.
35804 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
35805 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
35806 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
35807 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
35810 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
35811 o Security bugfixes:
35812 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
35813 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
35814 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
35815 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
35819 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
35820 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
35821 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
35824 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
35826 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
35827 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
35828 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
35831 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
35832 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
35833 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
35834 watching for STREAM events.
35835 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
35836 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
35837 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
35838 operations, for profiling.
35841 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
35842 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
35843 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
35844 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
35845 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
35846 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
35848 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
35852 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
35853 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
35854 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
35855 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
35856 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
35858 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
35859 correctly in the Windows installer.
35860 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
35861 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
35862 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
35863 MIPSpro C compiler.
35864 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
35865 when we're running as a client.
35868 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
35870 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
35871 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
35872 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
35873 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
35874 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
35875 its circuits on demand.
35876 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
35877 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
35878 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
35879 connections more stable on average.
35880 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
35881 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
35882 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
35884 o Security bugfixes:
35885 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
35886 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
35889 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
35891 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
35892 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
35893 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
35894 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
35895 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
35896 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
35897 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
35898 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
35901 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
35903 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
35904 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
35905 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
35906 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
35907 routers for even longer.
35908 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
35909 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
35910 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
35911 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
35912 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
35913 caching HTTP proxies.
35914 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
35917 o Minor features, controller:
35918 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
35919 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
35920 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
35921 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
35923 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
35924 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
35925 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
35926 working much like those for circuit events.
35927 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
35928 about the current status of a router.
35929 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
35930 a router's status has changed.
35931 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
35932 can tell which events and features are supported.
35933 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
35934 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
35936 o Security bugfixes:
35937 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
35938 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
35941 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
35942 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
35943 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
35944 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
35945 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
35946 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
35947 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
35948 long nicknames where appropriate.
35949 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
35950 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
35951 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
35952 chews through many circuits before giving up.
35953 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
35954 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
35955 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
35956 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
35957 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
35958 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
35960 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
35961 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
35962 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
35964 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
35965 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
35966 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
35967 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
35968 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
35969 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
35970 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
35971 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
35972 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
35973 (reported by fookoowa).
35974 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
35975 and reported by some Centos users.
35976 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
35977 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
35978 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
35979 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
35980 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
35981 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
35982 before we check for libevent.
35985 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
35987 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
35988 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
35989 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
35990 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
35991 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
35992 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
35993 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
35994 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
35995 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
35996 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
35997 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
35998 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
35999 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
36000 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
36001 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
36002 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
36003 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
36004 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
36005 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
36006 lets you turn it off.
36007 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
36008 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
36009 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
36010 us into the directory more quickly.
36012 o New/improved config options:
36013 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
36014 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
36015 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
36016 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
36017 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
36018 all the machines on the same subnet.
36019 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
36020 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
36021 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
36022 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
36023 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
36024 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
36025 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
36026 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
36027 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
36028 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
36030 o Minor features, controller:
36031 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
36032 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
36033 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
36034 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
36035 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
36036 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
36037 for more information.
36038 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
36039 best guess to the user.
36040 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
36041 descriptor has changed.
36042 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
36044 o Minor features, other:
36045 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
36046 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
36047 useful to the network.
36048 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
36049 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
36050 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
36051 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
36052 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
36053 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
36054 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
36055 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
36056 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
36057 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
36058 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
36059 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
36060 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
36061 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
36062 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
36064 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
36065 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
36066 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
36067 could return an unnamed server instead.
36068 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
36069 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
36070 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
36071 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
36072 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
36073 a more attractive target for compromise.)
36074 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
36075 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
36076 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
36078 o Major bugfixes, other:
36079 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
36080 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
36081 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
36082 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
36083 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36084 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36085 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
36086 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36087 its circuits on demand.
36088 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
36089 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36090 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36091 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36093 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
36094 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36095 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36096 we don't recognize.
36097 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36099 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
36100 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
36101 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36102 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
36103 "extendcircuit" request.
36104 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36105 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36106 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
36108 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
36109 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
36110 instead of "X resolved to X".
36111 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
36112 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
36113 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
36114 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
36115 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
36116 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
36117 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
36118 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
36119 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
36121 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
36122 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
36123 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
36124 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
36125 result more than once.
36126 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
36127 non-versioning dirservers.
36128 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
36129 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
36131 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
36132 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
36133 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
36134 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
36135 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
36136 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
36137 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
36138 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
36139 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
36141 o Packaging, features:
36142 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
36143 now universal binaries.
36144 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
36145 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
36146 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
36148 o Packaging, bugfixes:
36149 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
36150 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
36151 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
36152 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
36154 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
36155 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
36156 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
36159 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
36160 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
36161 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
36165 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
36167 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36168 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36169 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
36170 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
36171 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
36172 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
36173 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
36174 it can't resolve its hostname.
36177 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
36178 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
36179 "extendcircuit" request.
36180 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36181 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36182 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
36183 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
36185 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
36186 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
36187 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
36189 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
36190 methods: these are known to be buggy.
36191 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36192 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36193 we don't recognize.
36196 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
36198 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
36199 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
36200 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
36201 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
36202 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
36203 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
36204 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
36205 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
36206 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
36207 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
36208 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
36209 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
36210 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
36211 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
36212 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
36213 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
36214 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
36215 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
36216 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
36217 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
36218 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
36219 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
36220 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
36221 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
36224 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
36225 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
36226 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
36227 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
36228 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
36229 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
36230 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
36231 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
36232 recommendation system saner.)
36233 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
36235 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
36236 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
36237 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
36238 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
36239 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
36240 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
36241 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
36242 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
36243 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
36244 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
36245 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
36246 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
36247 your ORPort is set.
36248 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
36249 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
36250 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
36251 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
36252 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
36253 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
36254 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
36255 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
36256 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
36257 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
36258 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
36259 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
36261 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
36262 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
36263 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
36264 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
36265 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
36266 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
36269 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
36270 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
36271 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
36272 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
36273 our DirPort now, etc.
36274 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
36275 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
36276 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
36277 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
36278 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
36279 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
36280 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
36282 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
36283 whether the config options are bad or good.
36284 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
36285 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
36286 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
36287 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
36288 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
36289 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
36290 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
36291 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
36294 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
36295 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
36296 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
36297 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
36298 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
36299 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
36300 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
36301 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
36302 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
36303 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
36304 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
36305 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
36306 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
36307 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
36308 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
36309 of it), is not therefore "up".
36310 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
36311 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
36312 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
36313 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
36314 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
36315 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
36318 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
36320 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
36321 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
36322 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
36323 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
36324 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
36325 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
36326 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
36327 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
36328 test reachability, so you won't publish.
36331 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
36332 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
36333 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
36334 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
36335 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
36337 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
36338 own server descriptor yet.
36341 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
36343 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
36344 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
36345 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
36346 make sure to test via one of these.
36347 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
36348 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
36349 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
36350 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
36351 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
36353 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
36354 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
36355 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
36358 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
36359 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
36360 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
36361 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
36362 directory authority.
36363 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
36364 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
36365 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
36366 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
36369 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
36370 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
36371 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
36373 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
36374 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
36375 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
36376 current guards when picking a new guard.
36377 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
36378 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
36379 when we had more than one pending.
36380 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
36381 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
36382 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
36383 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
36384 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
36385 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
36386 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
36387 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
36388 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
36389 debug the reachability problems better.
36391 o Log / documentation fixes:
36392 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
36393 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
36394 about protocol violations by others.
36395 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
36396 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
36397 about what happened to our old torrc.
36400 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
36402 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
36404 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
36405 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
36406 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
36407 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
36410 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
36412 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
36413 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
36414 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
36415 old ORPort and receive connections.
36416 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
36418 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
36419 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
36420 and network-statuses.
36421 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
36422 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
36423 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
36424 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
36426 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
36429 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
36430 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
36431 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
36434 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
36436 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
36437 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
36438 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
36439 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
36440 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
36443 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
36444 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
36446 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
36447 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
36448 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
36449 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
36450 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
36451 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
36452 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
36453 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
36454 rather than not sending anything back at all.
36455 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
36456 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
36457 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
36458 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
36459 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
36460 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
36461 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
36462 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
36463 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
36464 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
36465 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
36466 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
36467 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
36468 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
36469 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
36470 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
36471 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
36472 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
36473 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
36474 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
36475 default ulimit -n is 1024.
36478 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
36479 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
36480 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
36481 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
36484 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
36486 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
36487 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
36488 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
36489 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
36490 entry guards running these flawed versions.
36491 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
36492 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
36493 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
36494 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
36495 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
36498 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
36499 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
36501 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
36502 and it is confusing some users.
36503 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
36504 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
36505 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
36506 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
36507 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
36510 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
36512 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
36513 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
36514 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
36515 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
36516 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
36517 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
36518 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
36519 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
36520 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
36521 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
36522 dirport is set for now.
36524 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
36525 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
36526 unattached before we fail it?
36527 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
36528 at least this many seconds ago.
36529 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
36530 at least this many seconds ago.
36533 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
36534 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
36535 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
36536 or resolve-wait stream.
36537 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
36538 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
36539 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
36540 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
36541 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
36542 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
36543 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
36544 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
36546 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
36547 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
36548 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
36549 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
36550 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
36551 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
36552 given as hex digests.
36553 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
36554 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
36555 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
36556 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
36557 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
36558 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
36559 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
36560 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
36563 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36564 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
36565 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
36566 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
36567 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
36568 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
36569 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
36570 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
36571 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
36572 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
36573 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
36576 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
36577 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
36578 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
36579 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
36580 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
36581 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
36582 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
36585 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
36586 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
36587 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
36588 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
36589 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
36590 misreading their logs.
36591 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
36592 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
36593 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
36594 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
36595 valid router descriptors.
36596 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
36597 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
36598 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
36599 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
36600 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
36601 silently resetting it to its default.
36602 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
36604 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
36607 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
36608 use clean circuits.
36609 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
36610 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
36611 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
36612 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
36613 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
36615 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
36616 because older Tors do not understand it.
36617 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
36621 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
36622 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36623 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
36624 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
36625 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
36626 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
36627 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
36628 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
36629 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
36630 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
36631 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
36633 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
36634 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
36635 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
36636 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
36638 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
36639 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
36642 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
36643 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
36644 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
36645 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
36646 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
36647 without getting overloaded.
36648 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
36650 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
36651 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
36652 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
36653 be forward-compatible.
36654 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
36655 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
36656 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
36657 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
36659 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
36660 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
36661 and OR conns to port 443.
36662 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
36663 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
36665 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
36666 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
36667 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
36668 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
36669 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
36670 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
36671 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
36674 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
36675 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36676 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
36677 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
36679 o Other important bugfixes:
36680 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
36681 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
36682 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
36683 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
36685 o Backported features:
36686 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
36687 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
36688 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
36689 without getting overloaded.
36690 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
36691 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
36692 503's whenever they feel busy.
36693 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
36694 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
36695 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
36696 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
36697 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
36700 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
36701 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
36702 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
36703 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
36704 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
36705 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
36706 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
36707 know if the crashes continue.
36708 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
36709 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
36710 seg faults in at least some cases.)
36711 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
36712 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
36713 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
36716 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
36717 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
36718 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
36719 try to be a bit more fair.
36720 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
36721 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
36722 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
36723 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
36724 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
36725 bug that let it go negative.
36726 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
36727 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
36728 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
36729 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
36730 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
36731 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
36732 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
36733 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
36734 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
36735 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
36736 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
36739 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
36741 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
36742 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
36743 service descriptors.
36746 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
36747 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
36748 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
36749 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
36751 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
36752 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
36753 versions *are* still recommended.
36754 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
36755 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
36756 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
36757 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
36758 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
36759 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
36760 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
36761 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
36763 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
36764 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
36765 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
36766 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
36767 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
36768 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
36769 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
36770 on it. Not used by clients yet.
36771 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
36772 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
36773 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
36774 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
36775 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
36776 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
36777 established a circuit.
36778 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
36779 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
36780 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
36781 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
36784 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
36785 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36786 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
36787 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
36788 quickly enough. Oops.
36789 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
36791 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36792 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
36795 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
36796 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
36797 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
36798 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
36799 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
36800 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
36801 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
36802 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
36803 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
36804 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
36805 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
36806 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
36807 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
36808 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
36809 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
36810 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
36811 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
36814 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
36815 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
36816 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
36817 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
36818 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
36819 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
36820 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
36821 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
36822 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
36823 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
36824 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
36825 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
36826 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
36827 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
36828 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
36829 connections more reliable.
36832 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
36833 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
36834 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
36835 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
36836 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
36837 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
36838 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
36839 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
36840 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
36841 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
36842 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
36843 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
36844 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
36845 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
36849 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
36850 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
36851 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
36852 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
36853 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
36854 need to be uint64_t's.
36855 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
36856 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
36857 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
36859 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
36861 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
36862 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
36863 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
36864 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
36865 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
36866 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
36867 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
36869 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
36870 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
36871 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
36872 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
36873 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
36874 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
36875 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
36876 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
36877 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
36878 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
36879 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
36880 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
36881 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
36884 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
36885 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
36886 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
36887 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
36888 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
36889 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
36890 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
36892 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
36893 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
36894 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
36895 can answer v2 directory requests too.
36896 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
36897 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
36898 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
36899 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
36901 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
36902 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
36903 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
36904 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
36905 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
36906 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
36907 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
36908 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
36909 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
36910 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
36911 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
36912 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
36913 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
36914 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
36915 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
36917 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
36918 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
36921 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
36922 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36923 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
36924 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
36925 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
36926 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
36927 too -- so detect and avoid this.
36928 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
36930 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
36931 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
36932 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
36933 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
36934 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
36935 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
36936 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
36937 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
36938 rendezvous circuits.
36939 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
36941 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36942 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
36943 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
36944 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
36945 advertising it because of hibernation.
36946 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
36947 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
36948 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
36949 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
36950 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
36951 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
36952 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
36953 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
36954 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
36955 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
36956 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
36957 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
36958 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
36959 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
36962 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
36963 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36964 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
36965 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
36966 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
36967 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
36968 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
36969 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
36970 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
36971 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
36972 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
36973 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
36974 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
36975 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
36976 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
36977 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
36978 connections once a week.
36979 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
36980 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
36981 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
36982 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
36983 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
36984 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
36986 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
36987 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
36988 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
36990 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36991 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
36992 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
36993 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
36994 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
36995 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
36996 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
36997 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
36998 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
36999 firewall options forbid.
37000 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
37001 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
37002 can only proxy to certain destinations.
37003 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
37004 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
37005 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
37006 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
37007 aids some statistical attacks.
37008 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
37009 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
37010 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
37011 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
37013 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37014 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
37015 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
37016 server descriptor sometimes.
37017 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
37018 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
37019 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
37020 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
37021 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
37022 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
37023 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
37024 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
37026 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
37027 case the controller wants to change that too.
37028 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
37029 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
37030 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
37031 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
37033 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
37034 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
37035 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
37037 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
37038 descriptors that they know they will reject.
37040 o Features and updates:
37041 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
37042 significantly faster.
37043 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
37044 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
37045 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
37046 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
37047 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
37048 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
37049 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
37050 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
37051 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
37052 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
37053 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
37054 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
37055 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
37056 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
37057 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
37058 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
37059 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
37060 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
37061 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
37062 as authoritative dirserver.
37063 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
37064 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
37065 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
37068 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
37069 o Usability improvements:
37070 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
37071 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
37073 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
37074 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
37075 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
37077 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
37078 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
37079 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
37080 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
37081 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
37082 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
37083 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
37084 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
37085 memory leaks better.
37086 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
37087 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
37088 their operators to pay close attention.
37089 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
37090 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
37092 o Performance improvements:
37093 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
37094 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
37095 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
37096 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
37097 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
37098 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
37099 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
37100 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
37101 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
37102 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
37103 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
37104 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
37105 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
37106 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
37107 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
37108 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
37109 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
37111 o Security improvements:
37112 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
37113 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
37114 fingerprint of server.
37115 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
37116 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
37117 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
37119 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37120 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
37121 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
37122 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
37123 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
37124 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
37125 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
37126 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
37127 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
37128 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
37129 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
37130 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
37131 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
37132 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
37133 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
37134 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
37135 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
37136 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
37137 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
37138 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
37139 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
37141 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
37142 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
37143 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
37145 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
37146 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
37148 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
37149 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
37150 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
37151 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
37152 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
37153 of the controller protocol.
37154 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
37155 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
37156 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
37159 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
37160 o New features (major):
37161 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
37162 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
37163 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
37164 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
37165 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
37166 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
37167 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
37168 we're using a default DirPort.
37169 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
37171 o New features (minor):
37172 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
37173 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
37174 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
37175 mirrors still cache and serve it).
37176 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
37177 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
37178 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
37179 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
37180 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
37181 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
37182 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
37183 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
37184 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
37185 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
37186 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
37187 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
37188 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
37189 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
37190 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
37192 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
37193 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
37194 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
37195 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
37196 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
37197 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
37198 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
37199 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
37201 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
37202 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
37203 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
37204 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
37205 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
37206 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
37207 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
37208 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
37209 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
37210 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
37212 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
37213 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
37214 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
37215 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
37216 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
37218 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37219 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
37220 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
37222 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
37223 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
37225 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
37226 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
37227 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
37228 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
37229 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
37230 don't warn twice about the same name.
37231 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
37232 if we've not heard of the server.
37233 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
37234 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
37237 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
37238 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37239 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
37240 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
37241 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
37242 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
37243 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
37244 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
37245 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
37246 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
37247 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
37248 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
37249 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
37250 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
37251 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
37254 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
37255 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
37256 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
37257 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
37258 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
37260 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
37261 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
37262 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
37263 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
37264 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
37265 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
37269 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
37270 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
37271 nickname) is reachable by you.
37272 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
37275 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37276 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
37277 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
37278 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
37279 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
37280 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
37281 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
37282 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
37283 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
37284 we fail to connect).
37285 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
37286 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
37287 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
37288 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
37290 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
37291 it was self-testing that told us so.
37294 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
37295 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
37296 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
37297 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
37298 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
37299 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
37300 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
37301 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
37302 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
37303 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
37304 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
37305 exit policy using him for any exits.
37306 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
37309 o New controller features/fixes:
37310 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
37311 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
37312 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
37313 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
37314 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
37315 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
37316 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
37317 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
37318 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
37320 o Start on the new directory design:
37321 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
37322 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
37324 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
37325 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
37326 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
37327 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
37329 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
37330 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
37331 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
37332 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
37333 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
37334 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
37335 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
37336 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
37339 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
37340 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
37341 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
37342 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
37343 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
37344 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
37345 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
37346 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
37347 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
37348 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
37350 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
37351 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
37352 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
37353 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
37354 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
37355 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
37356 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
37357 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
37358 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
37360 o Config option changes:
37361 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
37362 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
37363 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
37364 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
37365 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
37366 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
37368 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37369 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
37370 people have started using them for spam too.
37371 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
37372 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
37373 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
37374 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
37375 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
37376 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
37377 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
37378 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
37379 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
37380 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
37381 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
37382 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
37383 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
37384 services faster on the service end.
37385 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
37386 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
37387 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
37388 it a fair shake next time we try.
37389 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
37390 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
37391 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
37392 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
37393 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
37394 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
37395 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
37396 able to discover them.
37397 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
37398 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
37399 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
37400 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
37401 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
37402 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
37403 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
37404 testing for reachability.
37405 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
37406 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
37408 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
37410 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
37411 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
37414 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
37415 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
37417 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37418 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
37419 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
37420 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
37423 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
37424 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37425 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
37427 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
37428 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
37431 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
37432 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
37435 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
37436 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
37437 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
37438 options, getinfo keys.
37441 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
37442 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37443 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
37444 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
37445 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
37446 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
37447 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
37449 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
37450 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
37454 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
37455 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
37456 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
37458 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
37460 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
37461 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
37462 circuit events and we go offline.
37463 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
37464 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
37465 you don't have enough intro points already.
37467 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
37468 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
37469 many bytes we've used in this time period.
37470 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
37471 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
37472 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
37473 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
37474 enabled by default yet.
37476 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
37477 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
37478 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
37479 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
37480 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
37483 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
37484 o New directory servers:
37485 - tor26 has changed IP address.
37487 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37488 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
37489 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
37490 pthreads libraries.
37491 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
37492 claims its dirport is 0.
37493 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
37494 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
37498 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
37499 o New directory servers:
37500 - tor26 has changed IP address.
37502 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
37503 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
37505 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
37506 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
37507 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
37508 ports that have changed.
37509 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
37511 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
37512 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
37513 Windows-style errno back.
37514 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
37516 want to make it an NT service.
37517 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
37518 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
37519 name, give the full name in our response.
37520 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
37521 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
37522 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
37523 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
37524 pthreads libraries.
37526 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37527 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
37531 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
37532 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
37533 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
37534 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
37535 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
37538 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
37539 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37540 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
37541 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
37542 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
37543 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
37544 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
37545 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
37548 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
37550 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
37551 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
37552 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
37553 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
37554 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
37555 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
37557 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
37558 temporarily unreachable.
37559 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
37563 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
37564 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
37565 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
37566 our protocol works.
37567 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
37571 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
37572 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
37573 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
37574 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
37575 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
37579 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
37580 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
37581 libevent before 1.1a.
37584 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
37586 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
37587 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
37588 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
37589 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
37590 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
37592 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
37593 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
37594 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
37595 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
37596 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
37597 of CPU time plus memory.
37598 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
37599 normal web requests.
37600 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
37601 tor_lookup_hostname().
37602 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
37603 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
37604 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
37605 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
37606 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
37607 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
37609 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
37610 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
37611 HttpProxyAuthenticator
37612 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
37613 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
37614 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
37616 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
37617 the user asks you to.
37618 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
37619 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
37620 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
37621 their descriptors are being rejected.
37622 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
37626 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
37628 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
37629 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
37630 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
37632 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
37634 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
37636 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
37637 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
37638 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
37639 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
37640 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
37641 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
37642 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
37643 keys) from the exit server's process.
37644 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
37645 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
37646 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
37647 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
37648 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
37649 point at your Tor server.
37650 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
37651 you're not sending a socks reply back.
37654 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
37655 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
37656 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
37657 to make it easier to write controllers.
37660 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
37662 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
37663 installing on Tiger.
37664 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
37665 complain during installation.
37666 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
37667 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
37668 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
37669 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
37670 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
37671 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
37673 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
37674 something more reasonable when first installing.
37675 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
37678 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
37680 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
37681 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
37683 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
37684 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
37685 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
37686 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
37687 when using the default exit policy.
37688 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
37689 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
37690 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
37691 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
37692 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
37693 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
37694 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
37695 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
37696 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
37697 we fetched a new directory.
37698 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
37699 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
37702 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
37703 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
37704 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
37705 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
37706 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
37707 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
37708 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
37709 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
37711 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
37712 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
37713 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
37714 save memory on systems that need to fork.
37715 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
37716 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
37717 is valid without actually launching Tor.
37718 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
37719 rather than just rejecting it.
37722 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
37724 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
37725 we didn't like its cert.
37727 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
37728 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
37729 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
37730 on patch from Adam Langley.
37731 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
37732 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
37733 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
37734 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
37736 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
37737 directory every time you regenerate it.
37738 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
37739 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
37742 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
37743 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37744 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
37745 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
37746 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
37749 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
37751 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
37752 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
37753 TLS errors better in other situations too.
37754 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
37755 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
37756 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
37757 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
37758 and don't log when you are.
37759 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
37760 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
37762 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
37763 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
37764 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
37765 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
37766 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
37769 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
37770 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
37771 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
37772 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
37773 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
37774 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
37775 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
37776 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
37777 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
37778 nickname+key are allowed.
37779 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
37780 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
37781 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
37782 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
37783 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
37784 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
37785 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
37786 have quite wrong clocks).
37787 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
37788 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
37789 - Efficiency improvements:
37790 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
37791 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
37792 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
37793 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
37794 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
37795 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
37796 lowercase and be done with it.
37797 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
37798 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
37799 to abandon partially built circuits.
37800 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
37801 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
37803 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
37805 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
37806 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
37807 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
37808 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
37810 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
37811 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
37813 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
37814 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
37815 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
37816 obeying the exit policy internally.
37817 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
37818 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
37820 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
37821 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
37822 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
37823 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
37825 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
37826 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
37827 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
37828 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
37829 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
37831 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
37832 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
37833 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
37834 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
37835 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
37836 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
37837 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
37838 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
37839 descriptors we just dropped.
37840 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
37841 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
37842 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
37843 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
37844 artificially capped at 500kB.
37847 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
37848 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37849 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
37850 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
37851 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
37852 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
37853 busy for more than 100 seconds.
37856 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
37857 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
37858 - Fixes on reachability detection:
37859 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
37860 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
37861 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
37862 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
37863 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
37864 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
37865 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
37866 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
37867 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
37868 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
37869 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
37870 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
37871 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
37872 server not already connected to them.
37873 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
37874 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
37875 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
37877 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
37879 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
37880 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
37881 are in a different state than they actually are.
37882 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
37883 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
37884 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
37886 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
37887 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
37888 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
37890 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
37891 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
37892 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
37893 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
37894 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
37895 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
37896 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
37898 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
37899 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
37900 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
37901 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
37904 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
37905 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37906 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
37907 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
37908 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
37909 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
37910 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
37911 creating actual system users.
37912 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
37913 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
37917 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
37919 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
37920 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
37921 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
37922 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
37923 hidden services better.
37924 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
37926 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
37927 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
37928 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
37929 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
37930 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
37931 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
37932 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
37933 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
37934 patch by Matt Edman).
37935 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
37936 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
37937 required exit node for certain sites.
37938 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
37939 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
37940 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
37941 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
37942 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
37943 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
37944 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
37945 rather than just "success" or "failure".
37946 - A more sane version numbering system. See
37947 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
37948 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
37949 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
37951 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
37952 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
37953 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
37954 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
37955 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
37956 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
37957 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
37959 o Robustness/stability fixes:
37960 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
37961 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
37962 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
37964 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
37965 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
37966 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
37968 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
37969 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
37970 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
37972 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
37973 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
37974 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
37975 that will want high uptime circuits.
37976 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
37977 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
37978 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
37979 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
37980 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
37981 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
37982 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
37983 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
37984 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
37985 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
37986 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
37987 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
37988 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
37989 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
37990 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
37991 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
37992 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
37993 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
37994 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
37995 when we try to launch one.
37996 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
37997 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
37998 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
37999 "ShutdownWaitLength".
38000 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
38001 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
38002 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
38003 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
38004 and to take errno into account where possible.
38007 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
38008 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
38009 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
38010 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
38011 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
38012 file more reasonable.
38013 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
38014 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
38015 addresses -- it won't.
38016 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
38017 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
38018 for google.com" problem.
38019 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
38020 so it's not just "unknown platform".
38021 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
38022 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
38023 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
38024 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
38026 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
38027 they could use instead.
38028 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
38029 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
38030 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
38031 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
38032 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
38033 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
38034 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
38035 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
38036 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
38038 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
38042 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
38043 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
38045 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
38046 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
38047 private-IP addresses.
38048 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
38049 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
38051 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
38052 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
38053 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
38054 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
38055 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
38056 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
38057 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
38059 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
38060 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
38061 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
38062 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
38063 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
38064 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
38065 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
38066 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
38068 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
38070 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
38071 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
38072 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
38073 whether the server is hibernating.
38076 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
38077 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
38078 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
38079 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
38080 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
38081 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
38082 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
38083 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
38084 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
38085 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
38086 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
38087 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
38088 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
38089 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
38090 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
38092 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
38093 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
38094 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
38095 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
38096 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
38097 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
38098 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
38099 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
38100 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
38101 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
38102 existing torrc files.
38103 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
38106 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
38107 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38108 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
38109 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
38110 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
38111 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
38112 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
38113 the win32 SYSTEM account.
38114 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
38115 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
38116 file descriptors available.
38117 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
38118 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
38119 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
38122 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
38123 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38124 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
38125 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
38127 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
38128 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
38129 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
38130 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
38131 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
38133 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
38134 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
38135 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
38136 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
38137 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
38138 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
38139 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
38140 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
38141 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
38142 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
38143 800kB/s of capacity.
38144 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
38147 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
38148 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38149 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
38150 need as much processor time.
38151 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
38152 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
38153 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
38154 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
38155 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
38156 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
38157 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
38158 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
38159 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
38160 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
38161 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
38162 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
38164 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
38165 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
38166 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
38167 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
38168 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
38169 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
38170 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
38173 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
38174 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
38175 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
38177 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
38178 style address, then we'd crash.
38179 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
38180 a dirserver is broken.
38181 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
38183 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
38184 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
38185 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
38187 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
38188 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
38189 name out of the warning/assert messages.
38190 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
38191 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
38192 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
38194 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
38195 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
38196 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
38198 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
38200 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
38201 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
38202 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
38203 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
38204 values at once couldn't work.
38205 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
38206 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
38207 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
38208 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
38209 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
38210 they can handle any number of routers.
38211 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
38212 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
38213 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
38214 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
38215 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
38216 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
38217 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
38218 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
38219 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
38222 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
38223 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38224 - Make hibernation actually work.
38225 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
38226 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
38227 don't use the stream status code.
38230 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
38232 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
38233 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
38235 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
38238 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
38239 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
38240 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
38241 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
38242 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
38243 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
38244 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
38245 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
38246 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
38247 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
38249 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38250 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
38251 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
38252 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
38253 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
38254 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
38255 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
38256 - Make unit tests work on win32.
38259 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
38260 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
38261 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
38263 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
38264 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
38265 than just chopping them off.
38266 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
38268 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38269 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
38270 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
38271 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
38272 right after sending the begin cell.
38273 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
38274 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
38275 exit nodes too. Oops.
38278 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
38279 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
38280 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
38281 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
38282 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
38283 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
38284 the user knows which one it's talking about.
38285 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
38286 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
38287 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
38290 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
38291 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38292 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
38293 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
38295 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
38297 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
38298 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
38299 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
38301 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
38302 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
38303 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
38304 Clip rather than rejecting.
38305 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
38306 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
38309 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
38310 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
38311 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
38312 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
38314 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
38317 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
38318 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38319 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
38320 win32 socket errors better.
38322 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38323 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
38326 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
38327 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38328 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
38329 so we don't see those messages days later.
38331 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38332 - Make tor-resolve work again.
38333 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
38334 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
38337 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
38338 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38339 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
38340 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
38342 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
38343 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
38344 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
38347 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
38348 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38349 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
38350 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
38351 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
38352 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
38353 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
38354 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
38355 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
38357 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
38358 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
38359 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
38360 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
38362 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
38363 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
38366 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
38367 hibernation properties by
38368 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
38369 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
38370 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
38371 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
38372 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
38373 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
38374 get back to normal.)
38375 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
38377 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
38378 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
38379 to fill the last cell completely.
38380 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
38383 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
38384 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38385 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
38386 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
38387 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
38388 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
38389 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
38390 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
38391 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
38392 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
38393 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
38395 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
38396 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
38397 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
38398 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
38399 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
38400 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
38401 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
38402 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
38404 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
38405 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
38406 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
38407 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
38408 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
38409 have it on start-up.
38412 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
38413 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
38414 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
38415 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
38416 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
38417 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
38418 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
38419 configuration to torrc.
38420 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
38421 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
38422 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
38423 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
38424 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
38426 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
38427 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
38428 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
38429 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
38430 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
38431 log more informatively.
38432 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
38433 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
38434 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
38435 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
38436 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
38437 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
38438 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
38439 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
38440 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
38441 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
38442 from each other, to hinder linkability.
38445 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
38446 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
38447 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
38448 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
38449 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
38450 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
38451 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
38453 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
38454 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
38455 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
38456 they ran out of file descriptors.
38457 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
38458 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
38459 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
38460 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
38461 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
38462 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
38463 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
38465 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
38468 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
38469 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
38470 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
38471 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
38472 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
38473 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
38474 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
38475 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
38476 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
38477 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
38478 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
38479 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
38480 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
38481 with the control port.
38482 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
38483 use in authenticating to the control interface.
38484 - New log format in config:
38485 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
38486 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
38489 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
38490 from their dirserver.
38491 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
38493 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
38494 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
38495 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
38496 them act more like real nodes.
38497 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
38498 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
38500 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
38501 nickname to its identity key.
38502 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
38503 not on the command line.
38504 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
38505 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
38506 1024) file descriptors.
38508 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
38509 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
38511 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
38512 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
38513 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
38516 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
38517 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
38518 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
38519 exit policy, not reject *:*.
38520 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
38521 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
38522 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
38523 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
38524 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
38525 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
38526 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
38529 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
38530 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
38531 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
38532 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
38533 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
38534 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
38535 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
38538 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
38539 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38540 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
38541 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
38542 the ones we find in directories.)
38543 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
38545 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
38546 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
38548 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
38549 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
38550 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
38552 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
38553 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
38554 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
38555 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
38557 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
38558 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
38559 any more exit policy lines.
38562 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
38563 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
38564 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
38565 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
38566 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
38567 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
38568 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
38569 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
38570 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
38571 will be able to get a directory.
38572 - Http proxy support
38573 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
38574 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
38575 be routed through this host.
38576 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
38577 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
38578 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
38579 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
38582 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
38584 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
38585 clients/servers with an open dirport.
38586 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
38587 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
38588 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
38589 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
38590 intermittent connections.
38591 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
38592 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
38594 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
38595 in reporting stats locally.
38596 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
38597 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
38598 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
38601 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
38603 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
38604 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
38607 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
38609 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
38610 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
38611 if you don't want it open.
38612 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
38613 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
38614 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
38615 intermittent connections.
38616 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
38618 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
38619 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
38620 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
38621 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
38622 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
38623 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
38624 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
38625 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
38626 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
38627 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
38628 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
38629 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
38630 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
38631 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
38632 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
38633 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
38636 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
38637 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
38638 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
38639 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
38640 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
38642 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
38644 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
38645 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
38646 specified in HTTP 1.0.
38647 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
38648 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
38649 than once per minute.
38650 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
38651 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
38654 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
38655 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
38658 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
38659 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
38660 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
38661 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
38664 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
38665 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
38667 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
38668 don't put it into the client dns cache.
38669 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
38670 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
38671 until we get our next directory.
38673 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
38674 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
38675 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
38676 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
38677 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
38678 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
38679 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
38680 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
38681 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
38682 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
38683 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
38685 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
38687 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
38688 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
38690 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
38691 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
38692 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
38694 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
38696 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
38697 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
38698 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
38699 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
38700 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
38701 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
38702 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
38703 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
38706 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
38707 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
38708 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
38709 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
38712 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
38713 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
38714 ask them to resolve the host "".
38717 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
38718 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
38719 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
38720 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
38721 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
38722 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
38723 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
38724 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
38725 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
38726 clients don't use this yet.)
38727 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
38728 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
38729 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
38730 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
38731 for pointing out this bug.)
38732 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
38733 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
38734 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
38735 kazaa, gnutella ports.
38736 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
38738 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
38739 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
38740 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
38741 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
38742 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
38743 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
38744 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
38745 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
38746 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
38747 wolf unpredictably.
38748 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
38749 that's still handshaking.
38750 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
38751 you'll choose it for your path.
38752 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
38753 end relay cell, etc.
38754 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
38755 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
38756 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
38759 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
38760 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
38762 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
38763 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
38764 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
38765 list to decide who's running or verified.
38766 - Bugfixes and features:
38767 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
38768 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
38769 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
38770 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
38771 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
38772 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
38774 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
38775 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
38776 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
38777 know you might want to get it verified.
38778 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
38781 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
38783 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
38784 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
38785 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
38786 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
38788 o Protocol changes:
38789 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
38790 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
38791 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
38792 hadn't heard of before.
38795 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
38796 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
38797 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
38798 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
38799 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
38800 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
38801 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
38802 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
38803 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
38804 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
38805 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
38806 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
38807 - Directory caching.
38808 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
38809 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
38810 directory they've pulled down.
38811 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
38812 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
38813 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
38814 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
38815 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
38816 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
38817 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
38819 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
38820 This isn't used yet.
38821 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
38822 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
38823 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
38824 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
38825 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
38826 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
38827 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
38828 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
38829 - File and name management:
38830 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
38831 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
38833 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
38834 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
38835 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
38836 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
38837 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
38838 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
38839 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
38841 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
38842 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
38843 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
38844 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
38845 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
38847 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
38848 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
38849 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
38850 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
38851 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
38852 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
38853 - New docs in the tarball:
38855 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
38858 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
38859 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
38860 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
38863 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
38864 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
38865 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
38868 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
38869 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
38872 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
38873 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
38874 - Make it build on Win32 again.
38875 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
38876 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
38880 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
38882 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
38883 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
38884 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
38885 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
38886 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
38887 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
38888 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
38889 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
38890 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
38891 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
38894 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
38897 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
38898 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
38899 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
38900 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
38902 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
38903 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
38904 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
38906 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
38907 hidden service per 15-minute period.
38908 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
38909 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
38910 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
38911 o Fixes for security bugs:
38912 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
38913 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
38914 a trusted dirserver.
38916 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
38917 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
38918 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
38919 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
38920 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
38921 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
38922 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
38923 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
38924 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
38925 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
38927 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
38928 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
38929 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
38930 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
38932 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
38933 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
38934 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
38935 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
38936 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
38937 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
38938 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
38939 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
38940 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
38941 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
38942 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
38943 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
38944 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
38947 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
38948 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
38949 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
38950 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
38953 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
38954 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
38955 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
38956 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
38957 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
38958 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
38959 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
38963 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
38964 [version bump only]
38967 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
38968 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
38969 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
38970 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
38971 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
38973 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
38976 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
38977 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
38978 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
38979 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
38980 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
38981 o Better debugging for tls errors
38982 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
38983 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
38984 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
38985 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
38986 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
38987 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
38988 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
38989 o win32's close can't close a socket.
38992 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
38993 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
38994 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
38995 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
38996 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
38997 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
38998 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
38999 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
39000 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
39001 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
39002 just close the circ.
39003 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
39004 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
39005 (this was quite rare).
39008 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
39009 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
39010 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
39011 if you decrypted them correctly.
39012 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
39013 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
39014 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
39017 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
39018 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
39019 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
39020 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
39021 a second one and it works.
39022 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
39023 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
39024 alice would just have to wait to time out.
39025 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
39026 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
39027 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
39028 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
39029 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
39030 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
39031 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
39032 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
39033 i'd still like to find the bug though.
39034 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
39036 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
39040 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
39041 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
39042 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
39043 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
39044 he retries a couple of times
39045 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
39046 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
39047 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
39048 too long (they were sticking around forever).
39049 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
39053 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
39054 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
39055 - make hup work again
39056 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
39057 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
39058 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
39059 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
39060 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
39061 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
39063 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
39064 o changes from 0.0.5:
39065 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
39066 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
39067 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
39068 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
39069 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
39071 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
39072 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
39073 in-memory directories too
39076 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
39077 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
39080 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
39082 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
39083 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
39084 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
39085 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
39088 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
39089 [version bump only]
39092 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
39093 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
39095 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
39096 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
39097 but that aren't warnings
39100 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
39101 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
39102 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
39103 the dns farm to do it.
39104 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
39105 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
39107 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
39108 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
39109 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
39112 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
39113 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
39114 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
39115 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
39116 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
39117 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
39118 expect it to have a nickname.
39119 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
39120 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
39123 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
39124 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
39128 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
39129 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
39130 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
39131 - include missing header fcntl.h
39132 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
39133 - deal with hardware word alignment
39134 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
39135 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
39136 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
39137 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
39138 by kill -USR1 currently.
39139 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
39140 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
39141 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
39144 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
39145 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
39146 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
39149 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
39151 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
39152 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
39153 - And fix a few endian issues.
39156 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
39158 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
39159 try that circuit again: try a new one.
39160 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
39161 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
39162 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
39163 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
39164 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
39165 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
39167 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
39168 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
39169 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
39171 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
39173 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
39174 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
39175 side isn't reading right then.
39176 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
39177 RecommendedVersions
39178 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
39179 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
39180 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
39183 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
39185 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
39186 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
39189 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
39193 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
39195 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
39196 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
39197 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
39198 connection is finished.
39199 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
39200 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
39201 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
39202 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
39203 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
39204 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
39205 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
39206 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
39207 rather than warn and continue.
39208 - Make --version work
39209 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
39212 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
39214 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
39215 knows it's working.
39216 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
39217 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
39219 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
39220 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
39221 so you can collect coredumps there.
39223 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
39224 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
39225 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
39226 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
39227 dns cache actually gets populated.
39228 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
39229 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
39230 end cell down it first.
39231 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
39232 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
39235 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
39237 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
39238 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
39240 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
39241 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
39242 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
39243 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
39244 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
39245 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
39247 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
39249 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
39250 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
39251 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
39252 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
39253 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
39254 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
39256 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
39257 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
39260 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
39262 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
39263 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
39264 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
39265 tor. It even has a man page.
39266 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
39267 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
39268 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
39269 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
39271 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
39273 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
39276 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
39278 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
39279 it, apt-getters. :)
39280 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
39281 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
39282 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
39283 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
39284 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
39285 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
39286 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
39287 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
39288 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
39289 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
39290 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
39292 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
39293 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
39296 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
39298 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
39299 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
39302 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
39304 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
39305 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
39306 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
39307 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
39308 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
39309 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
39310 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
39311 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
39312 logfile so you know it's working.
39313 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
39314 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
39317 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
39319 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
39320 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
39321 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
39324 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
39326 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
39327 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
39328 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
39331 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
39332 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
39333 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
39335 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
39336 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
39338 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
39339 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
39340 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
39342 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
39343 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
39347 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
39349 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
39350 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
39351 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
39354 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
39355 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
39356 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
39357 - Add port ranges to exit policies
39358 - Add a conservative default exit policy
39359 - Warn if you're running tor as root
39360 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
39361 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
39362 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
39363 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
39365 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
39368 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
39369 o Robustness and bugfixes:
39370 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
39371 really screw things up.
39372 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
39374 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
39375 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
39377 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
39378 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
39379 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
39380 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
39381 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
39382 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
39385 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
39388 - Change default loglevel to warn.
39389 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
39390 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
39392 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
39395 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
39396 o Robustness and bugfixes:
39397 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
39398 - to get ownership/permissions right
39399 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
39400 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
39401 pull down a directory again
39402 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
39403 causing server crashes
39404 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
39405 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
39406 - exit if bind() fails
39407 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
39408 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
39409 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
39410 - fix minor bias in PRNG
39411 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
39414 - Wrote the design document (woo)
39416 o Circuit building and exit policies:
39417 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
39419 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
39420 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
39421 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
39422 exists, rather than failing
39423 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
39424 which AP connections are standing by
39425 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
39426 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
39427 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
39429 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
39430 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
39433 - APPort is now called SocksPort
39434 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
39436 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
39437 hardcoded (for dirservers)
39438 - Reloads config on HUP
39439 - Usage info on -h or --help
39440 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
39443 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
39444 o General stability:
39445 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
39446 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
39447 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
39448 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
39449 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
39450 to take down the network when I approve a new router
39451 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
39454 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
39455 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
39457 o Autoconf improvements:
39458 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
39459 - Make install now works
39460 - create var/lib/tor on make install
39461 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
39462 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
39464 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
39465 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
39466 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
39467 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup